<p>14:49 <i>I was daily with you in the temple teaching and you did not arrest me- </i>The Lord was addressing the leadership of the group, who had sat daily in the temple over the past week and heard Him. They knew what He looked like, He had sat&nbsp;<i>pros humas,&nbsp;</i>&quot;with you&quot; (AV), not so much &ldquo;with you&rdquo; as &lsquo;directly facing you&rsquo;, sitting down in front of them and therefore at close range. Therefore the need for Judas to identify the Lord with a kiss, to prove &ldquo;that same is He&rdquo;, was because the mass of armed men didn&rsquo;t know who He was, and had therefore not sat in the temple. Again we see the Lord recognizing that men are only who they are, the hired thugs were no more than hired thugs acting in ignorance; but the leaders who were present were the ones He wanted to address. This is confirmed by Lk. 22:52 stating that &ldquo;Jesus said to the chief priests and captains of the temple and elders that had come against him: Have you come as against a robber, with swords and staves?&rdquo;. The priests and elders were in that large crowd, and the Lord directly addresses them. So although He addressed &ldquo;the multitudes&rdquo;, His message was aimed at specific individuals within the crowd. This is true of much of Scripture; perhaps those parts we personally fail to understand are speaking to a particular group in need of that message, perhaps in a previous age, and it may not be as directly intended for us as it was to them. The correspondence between the narratives is detailed and deeply credible. Uninspired writers would surely not only contradict themselves, but lack this artless congruence between each other which we find in the inspired Gospel records. Lk. 22:53 adds that the Lord continued to say: &ldquo;But this is your hour, and the power of darkness&rdquo;. The sense is surely that in broad daylight they dared not lay hold on Him- they had to do it under cover of darkness, because they were of the darkness.</p><p><i>But this is done that the scriptures might be fulfilled</i>- This can be read as part of the Lord&rsquo;s words, or the comment of Matthew. &ldquo;Is happening&rdquo; is translated &ldquo;was done&rdquo; in the AV. See on :54; the emphasis upon the fulfilment of Scripture is not merely noting a correspondence between New Testament event and Old Testament scripture. Rather I suggest is the idea that the Lord chose to be obedient to God&rsquo;s word and will, to make it His own, to the highest possible extent, to the point of total personal identification with it; when by its nature, God&rsquo;s prophetic word has various possibilities of fulfilments on different levels, some of which would have enabled the Lord to bypass the cross. The specific reference may be to Ps. 31:11. This refers to how David's family appear to have later disowned him during Saul&rsquo;s persecution, fleeing from him, as the Lord&rsquo;s friends also did.</p><p>There is a sense of compulsion associated with the cross. The Greek word <i>dei</i>, translated &ldquo;must&quot; or &ldquo;ought&quot;, is repeatedly used by the Lord in reference to His death. He spoke of that death as the coming of His hour, as if always and in all things He felt a compulsion that He must die as He was to. Listing the references chronologically gives an impressive list:<br />&ldquo;I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not: but the scriptures <i>must be fulfilled</i>&quot; (Mark 14:49). Three times in say 30 minutes, the Lord has stressed the compulsion of the cross. <br />&ldquo;And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so <i>must</i> the Son of man be lifted up&quot; (John 3:14)<br />&ldquo;From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he <i>must</i> go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders&quot; (Mt. 16:21).<br />&ldquo;And he straitly charged them, and commanded them to tell no man that thing; Saying, The Son of man <i>must suffer </i>many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and <i>must </i>be slain, and be raised the third day&quot; (Luke 9:21-22).<br />&ldquo;And he answered and told them, Elias verily cometh first, and restoreth all things; and how it is written of the Son of man, that he<i> must suffer </i>many things, and be set at nought&quot; (Mark 9:12). These last three references all occurred within a day of each other, if not a few hours. The Lord at least three times was emphasizing how He <i>must</i> die the death of the cross.<br />&ldquo;Nevertheless <i>I must</i> walk to day, and tomorrow, and the day following: for <i>it cannot be </i>that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem&quot; (Luke 13:33)<br />&ldquo;But first i.e. most importantly, not just chronologically<i> must he </i>suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation&quot; (Luke 17:25).<br />&ldquo;And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. This he said, signifying what death he should die. The people answered him, We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man <i>must be lifted up</i>? who is this Son of man?&quot; (John 12:32-34). When the Lord spoke of &ldquo;<i>If</i> I be lifted up&quot;, there was no doubt about it. The idiom was correctly understood by the people as meaning: &ldquo;I absolutely <i>must</i>&quot;. And for them this was a contradiction in terms: a &ldquo;son of man&quot; Messiah who <i>must</i> be crucified. <br />&ldquo;Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the Passover <i>must</i> be killed&quot; (Luke 22:7). <br />&ldquo;As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also <i>I must </i>bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again&quot; (John 10:15-17). Embedded in the context of prediction of the cross, the Lord described that act as being how He <i>must</i> bring His sheep unto Himself. <br />&ldquo;But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that <i>thus it must be</i>?... For I say unto you, that this that is written <i>must yet be accomplished </i>in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me <i>have an end</i>&quot; (Matt 26:54; Luke 22:37). See on Lk. 24:6.</p>