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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
Christ said to the crowd: "As though against a robber you have come out." Every day I taught in the temple! But this testifies to His Divinity. For when He taught in the temple, they could not seize Him, even though He was in their hands, since the time of His suffering had not yet come. But when He Himself willed it, then He also gave Himself up to them, that the prophetic Scriptures might be fulfilled, that "like a sheep He was led to the slaughter" (Isa. …
Western Saints
Bede
And Jesus, answering, said to them: "Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to capture me? etc." He said, it is foolish to seek him with swords and clubs who freely surrenders to your hands; and to search for him at night as if he were hiding and avoiding your sight, who teaches daily in the temple. But you gather against me in the dark because your power is in the darkness.
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