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I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled.
Mark 14:49 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me. But this is so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled.”
  • BSB Every day I was with you, teaching in the temple courts, and you did not arrest Me. But this has happened that the Scriptures would be fulfilled.”
  • NKJV I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize Me. But the Scriptures must be fulfilled.”
  • NASB Every day I was with you within the temple grounds teaching, and you did not arrest Me; but this has taken place so that the Scriptures will be fulfilled.”
  • NLT Why didn’t you arrest me in the Temple? I was there among you teaching every day. But these things are happening to fulfill what the Scriptures say about me.”

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Quick answer

Jesus notes he taught daily in the temple unopposed, but says this happens to fulfill the Scriptures. His arrest serves God's foretold plan.

Overview

Jesus contrasts his open public teaching with their secretive seizure, again underscoring their injustice. Yet he interprets the whole event as the fulfillment of Scripture. Even in betrayal and arrest, the sovereign purpose of God to save through the suffering Messiah is being accomplished.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 22

  • John 18:20Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing.
  • John 8:2And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.
  • Dan 9:24–26Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
  • Matt 26:54But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
  • Matt 26:56But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
  • Mark 12:35And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the son of David?
  • Matt 1:22Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,
  • Luke 24:44–45And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
  • Luke 22:37For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end.
  • Luke 19:47And he taught daily in the temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the chief of the people sought to destroy him,
  • John 8:12Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
  • Matt 21:23–27And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority?
  • John 7:37In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
  • John 10:23And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon’s porch.
  • Luke 24:25–27Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
  • Isa 53:1–12Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
  • Ps 22:1–31My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?
  • Luke 21:37–38And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives.
  • Mark 11:15–18And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;
  • Mark 11:27And they come again to Jerusalem: and as he was walking in the temple, there come to him the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders,
  • John 7:28–30Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.
  • Ps 69:1–36Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.

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Christ at the center

Mark drives urgently to the cross, showing Jesus the Son of God as the suffering Servant who 'came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.'

How Mark 14:49 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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