John Trapp on Matthew 26:54

Verse 54. But how then shall the Scriptures, &c.] Why dost thou not then pray (might they object) for an army of Angels, to rescue thee out of these wicked hands, that now hold thee prisoner, and will let out thy life-bloud? How then should the Scriptures be fulfilled, saith he, that have fore-told my death? This was his constant care, even when he hung upon the crosse, to fulfill the Scriptures: and so to assure us, that he was the very Christ. That thus it must be] Why must? but because it was, 1. So [illegible: 1 word] by God. 2, Fore-told by the Prophets; every particular of Christs [illegible: 1 word], even to their very spetting in his face. 3. Prefigured in the daily morning and evening [illegible: 1 word]; this lamb of God was sacrificed from the beginning of the world. A necessity then there was of our Saviours suffering. Not a necessity of coaction (for he died freely and voluntarily) but of immutability and infallibility, for the former reasons and respects.