Mark 14:49 - Exposition

But this is done that the Scriptures might be fulfilled . This, as it stands in the original, is an incomplete sentence; in St. Matthew ( Matthew 26:56 ) the sentence occurs in its complete form. In both cases it has been questioned whether the words are those of our Lord, or whether they are the comment of the evangelist. On the whole, it would seem more probable that they are our Lord's words, which seem almost required to conclude what he had said before.