The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
MAT 26:53 Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he
shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
MAT 26:54 But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it
must be?
MAT 26:55 In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come
out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat
daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.
MAT 26:56 But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets
might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
MAT 26:57 And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas
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