Well here's my reply!!!!
Durability:
Power Armor has taken vast amounts of damage both penetrative and blunt trauma with little difficulty before so while Jedi could use TK to throw them around this isn't going to much to characters who can free-fall from a planets atmosphere onto its surface. Jedi while they can be very durable fodder Jedi are nowhere near as good at manipulating the force as named or high-ranking Jedi its unlikely that any of them can effectively parry a volley of Bolter-fire that has punched through tank armor in the past. The next thing is the Jedi's weapons. They are using the worst time of weapon you can possibly use against a Marine. Lightsabres are focused plasma weapons and generates great heat to cut through objects as we've seen incredibly thick metal melt easily beneath its touch however Space Marine power armor is made of Ceramite:
Ceramite conducts almost no heat, making it especially heat-resistant and effective against energy-based weapons
-Space Marine Codex
So this means that a lightsabre is going to have a very hard time penetrating Power Armor. Terminator armor whcih is further enforced can walk through plasma cores which are the same heat as the sun with little effect (this is actually what it was designed for the Adeptus Mechanicus needed suits to be able to work in the extreme temperatures and only after building these suits they realized their potential for weaponized suits).
In this encounter Space Marines have a big durability advantage due to their healing factors, the exact type of weapon they were built to counter being used on them by the enemy and stupidly powerful blunt trauma resistance.
Stats:
Aside from durability the two teams are probably about equal in regards to normal stats due to the Jedi using the force to augment themselves and the Space Marines being superhuman.
As far as i'm concerned due to the versatility of the Jedi this is probably about equal.
Skill and Experience:
Run-of-the-mill Jedi have been largely unimpressive unfortunately as @deranged_midget pointed out. They are of course above average but only named characters display any sort of real skill or combat ability. Space Marines on the other hand are a different story. At age 14 they undergo the Astrates Augmentations and straight after that they are trained 21 hours day until they die in every form of combat (both close combat and ranged) the Imperium has to offer. The average age of a Space Marine is 150 years old and they have been fighting every single day of their lives for 21hours. Unnamed Marine's have been seen deflecting bullets multiple bullets with the edge of their swords and even knives and have been able to match Eldar warriors in close combat despite their vastly superior speed and arguably training too.
On a whole fodder Marines are far more impressive than fodder Jedi
Weapons:
This is what clinches it for me. Stormtrooper weapons are nothing compared with Marine bolters which are effectively miniature missiles and Lascannon's that can one-shot 40k vehicles. I could go into detail but its would take more time than i'm willing to dedicate right now. The Jedi's weapons as I touched on earlier are the absolute worst thing to use against a Marine due to how they work.
In this case Lightsabres are a hindrance more than a help. Marine ordnance is too much.
Conclusion:
The Marines have the durability to outlast Jedi versatility, are far more skilled in general (not talking special characters just basic Jedi), will have a far easier time hurting the Jedi than the other way around and have far more fire power.
Marines will end up taking this.
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