Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then would the scriptures be fulfilled, which say it must happen in this way?” At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, “Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me as though I were a rebel? Day after day I sat in the temple teaching, and you did not arrest me. But all this has taken place, so that the scriptures of the prophets may be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples deserted him and fled.
- Matthew 26: 53-56, NRSVUE
By the way, a Roman legion was around 6,000 soldiers.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the Bible, an angel of the Lord killed 185,000 Assyrian soldiers in one night. This event is described in 2 Kings 19:35, Isaiah 37:36-38, and 2 Chronicles 32:21.
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