Mark 14:48
Good News Translation
Then Jesus spoke up and said to them, "Did you have to come with swords and clubs to capture me, as though I were an outlaw?

New Revised Standard Version
Then Jesus said to them, “Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me as though I were a bandit?

Contemporary English Version
Jesus said to the mob, "Why do you come with swords and clubs to arrest me like a criminal?

New American Bible
Jesus said to them in reply, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs, to seize me?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Jesus answering, said to them: Are you come out as to a robber, with swords and staves to apprehend me?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Jesus answering, said to them: Are you come out as to a robber, with swords and staves to apprehend me?

Are.

1 Samuel 24:14,15 After whom dost thou pursue? After a dead dog, after a flea. . . .

1 Samuel 26:18 And he said: Wherefore doth my lord persecute his servant? What have I done? or what evil is there in my hand?

Matthew 26:55 In that same hour, Jesus said to the multitudes: You are come out, as it were to a robber, with swords and clubs to apprehend me. I sat daily with you, teaching in the temple: and you laid not hands on me.

Luke 22:52,53 And Jesus said to the chief priests and magistrates of the temple and the ancients, that were come unto him: Are ye come out, as it were against a thief, with swords and clubs? . . .

Context
The Betrayal of Jesus
47And one of them that stood by, drawing a sword, struck a servant of the chief priest and cut off his ear. 48And Jesus answering, said to them: Are you come out as to a robber, with swords and staves to apprehend me? 49I was daily with you in the temple teaching: and you did not lay hands on me. But that the scriptures may be fulfilled.…
Cross References
Matthew 26:47
As he yet spoke, behold Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, sent from the chief priests and the ancients of the people.

Matthew 26:55
In that same hour, Jesus said to the multitudes: You are come out, as it were to a robber, with swords and clubs to apprehend me. I sat daily with you, teaching in the temple: and you laid not hands on me.

Mark 14:47
And one of them that stood by, drawing a sword, struck a servant of the chief priest and cut off his ear.

Mark 14:49
I was daily with you in the temple teaching: and you did not lay hands on me. But that the scriptures may be fulfilled.

Mark 14:47
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