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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- KJV Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
- BSB Are you not aware that I can call on My Father, and He will at once put at My disposal more than twelve legions of angels?
- NKJV Or do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide Me with more than twelve legions of angels?
- NASB Or do you think that I cannot appeal to My Father, and He will at once put at My disposal more than twelve legions of angels?
- NLT Don’t you realize that I could ask my Father for thousands of angels to protect us, and he would send them instantly?
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- 2 Kgs 6:17Elisha prayed, and said, “Yahweh, please open his eyes, that he may see.” Yahweh opened the young man’s eyes; and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire around Elisha.
- Matt 4:11Then the devil left him, and behold, angels came and served him.
- Luke 8:30Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He said, “Legion,” for many demons had entered into him.
- Dan 7:10A fiery stream issued and came out from before him: thousands of thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
- 2 Th 1:7and to give relief to you who are afflicted with us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire,
- Jude 1:14About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones,
- Matt 25:31“But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.
- Matt 10:1–2He called to himself his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every sickness.
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