Then Jesus said to him. "Put back your sword into its place! for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the Heavenly army praising God and saying,

Even as in an earlier passage, Isaiah says, Except the Lord of Sabbath had us some few descendants, we should have become like Sodom, and should have fared like Gomorrah.

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth for service in behalf of those who are about to inherit salvation?

Look! the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have been keeping back by fraud, are crying aloud! And the cries of the reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth!