Matthew 26:53
He said “twelve legions,” saying it instead of “you twelve disciples,” so that “I do not need your help; for I have not used the authority, but I give myself over to the Jews, since the scriptures foretold that this would be, that the Jews are about to do these things.” (Matthew 26:53)
Greek
40 ∆ώδεκα εἶπε λεγεῶνας· ἀντὶ ὑμῶν λέγων τῶν δώδεκα μαθητῶν, ὥστε οὐ τῆς ὑμῶν ἐπικουρίας δέομαι· οὐ γὰρ κέχρημαι τῇ ἐξουσίᾳ, ἀλλ' ἐκδίδωμι ἐμαυτὸν τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις, ἐπείπερ τοῦτο ἐσόμενον προανήγγειλαν αἱ γραφαί, ὅτι ταῦτα μέλλουσιν οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι ποιεῖν.
About this text
Catena fragments on Matthew (CPG 5206). Contents follow Matthew chapter and verse. Edition fragment numbers stay in About this text and under each passage.
English follows the named copy-text (Aegean/khazarzar Migne PG 72 extract). Other prints were checked as noted; no silent merge of recensions.
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- Copy-text Migne PG 72 Commentarii in Matthaeum (Aegean Digital Patrologia / khazarzar) (Greek · CPG 5206 catena fragments (290 parsed heads))
- Checked print matia.gr mirror of same Aegean extract (Greek · Byte-identical PDF; integrity check only)
- Checked print Internet Archive PG 72 volume OCR (bim … 1859_72) (Greek (OCR damaged) · Locus confirmation only; not used as reading text)
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