Charles Spurgeon Commentary Matthew 26:53-54

"Or thinkest thou that I cannot beseech my Father, and he shall even now send me more than twelve legions of angels? How then should the scriptures be fulfilled that thus it must be?" — Matthew 26:53-54 (ASV)

How royally our King speaks! He was the true Master of the situation. He had only to pray to His Father and more than twelve legions of angels would come flashing down from the court of heaven. Each timid disciple might have found himself captain of an angelic legion, while their Lord might have had as many more as He chose. There was, however, one difficulty in the way, How then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be? Jesus thought more of fulfilling the Scriptures than of being delivered from the hands of wicked men. Neither Jewish bands nor Roman ropes could have held Him captive if He had not been under the bond of a mightier force, even that eternal covenant into which He had entered on behalf of His people.