Luke 22:53
Good News Translation
I was with you in the Temple every day, and you did not try to arrest me. But this is your hour to act, when the power of darkness rules."

New Revised Standard Version
When I was with you day after day in the temple, you did not lay hands on me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness!”

Contemporary English Version
I was with you every day in the temple, and you didn't arrest me. But this is your time, and darkness is in control."

New American Bible
Day after day I was with you in the temple area, and you did not seize me; but this is your hour, the time for the power of darkness.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
When I was daily with you in the temple, you did not stretch forth your hands against me: but this is your hour and the power of darkness.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

When I was daily with you in the temple, you did not stretch forth your hands against me: but this is your hour and the power of darkness.

I was.

Luke 21:37,38 And in the daytime, he was teaching in the temple: but at night going out, he abode in the mount that is called Olivet. . . .

Matthew 21:12-15,23,45,46 And Jesus went into the temple of God and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple and overthrew the tables of the money changers and the chairs of them that sold doves. . . .

John 7:25,26,30,45 Some therefore of Jerusalem said: Is not this he whom they seek to kill? . . .

but.

Judges 16:21-30 Then the Philistines seized upon him, and forthwith pulled out his eyes, and led him bound in chains to Gaza, and shutting him up in prison made him grind. . . .

Job 20:5 That the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.

John 12:27 Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But for this cause I came unto this hour.

John 16:20-22 Amen, amen, I say to you, that you shall lament and weep, but the world shall rejoice: and you shall be made sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy. . . .

the power.

John 14:30 I will not now speak many things with you. For the prince of this world: cometh: and in me he hath not any thing.

Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, that they may be converted from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a lot among the saints, by the faith that is in me.

2 Corinthians 4:3-6 And if our gospel be also hid, it is hid to them that are lost, . . .

Ephesians 6:12 For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places.

Colossians 1:13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love,

Revelation 12:9-12 And that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who seduceth the whole world. And he was cast unto the earth: and his angels were thrown down with him. . . .

Context
The Betrayal of Jesus
52And 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? 53When I was daily with you in the temple, you did not stretch forth your hands against me: but this is your hour and the power of darkness. 54And apprehending him, they led him to the high priest's house. But Peter followed afar off.…
Cross References
Luke 22:52
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?

Luke 22:54
And apprehending him, they led him to the high priest's house. But Peter followed afar off.

John 13:30
He therefore, having received the morsel, went out immediately. And it was night.

Luke 22:52
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