John Calvin Commentary Matthew 26:55

"In that hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a robber with swords and staves to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and ye took me not." — Matthew 26:55 (ASV)

Are you come out, as against a robber? With these words, Christ expostulates with his enemies for intending to make him odious by coming equipped with a large group of soldiers.

For the meaning is this: “What necessity was there for making such a display of arms against me, as if your object had been to overcome some robber? But I have always lived peacefully among you, and without using arms. When I was teaching in the temple, you could easily have seized me without any military force.”

Yet, while he complains of their malice in violently rushing upon him as if he were a seditious man, he again wounds their evil conscience by reminding them that, even though they had a traitor for their leader, they approached him with trembling and with many marks of distrust.