NEW TESTAMENT

Matthew 26:53

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Or do you think that I couldn’t ask my Father, and he would even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?

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Verse 53. More than twelve legions of angels. A legion was computed about 6,000. Witham.—These would amount to 72,000; but our Lord means no more than a great number.

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