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Luke 22

Luke 22:6

AND HE PROMISED, AND SOUGHT OPPORTUNITY TO BETRAY HIM UNTO THEM IN THE ABSENCE OF THE MULTITUDE. Originally, the day of the Passover proper had been distinguished from the Days of Unleavened Bread, but in the course of time the names were used without discrimination, the entire 14 th of Nisan being... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 22:10

AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, BEHOLD, WHEN YE ARE ENTERED INTO THE CITY, THERE SHALL A MAN MEET YOU BEARING A PITCHER OF WATER; FOLLOW HIM INTO THE HOUSE WHERE HE GOETH IN.... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 22:11

AND YE SHALL SAY UNTO THE GOODMAN OF THE HOUSE, THE MASTER SAITH UNTO THEE, WHERE IS THE GUEST-CHAMBER WHERE I SHALL EAT THE PASSOVER WITH MY DISCIPLES?... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 22:12

AND HE SHALL SHOW YOU A LARGE UPPER ROOM FURNISHED; THERE MAKE READY. It had been the custom of the Lord, as a member of the Jewish Church, to celebrate the Passover regularly. When therefore the day came, on the evening of which the Passover meal was held, the disciples came to Jesus with the quest... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 22:18

for I SAY UNTO YOU, I WILL NOT DRINK OF THE FRUIT OF THE VINE UNTIL THE KINGDOM OF GOD SHALL COME. Just as Jesus had told them by His divine omniscience, the disciples found everything, and so could prepare the food for the Passover meal. They bought a lamb whose condition complied with the requirem... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 22:19

AND HE TOOK BREAD, AND GAVE THANKS, AND BRAKE IT, AND GAVE UNTO THEM, SAYING, THIS IS MY BODY, WHICH IS GIVEN FOR YOU; THIS DO IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME.... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 22:20

LIKEWISE ALSO THE CUP AFTER SUPPER, SAYING, THIS CUP IS THE NEW TESTAMENT IN MY BLOOD, WHICH IS SHED FOR YOU. The meal proper was drawing to a close. The Lord had fulfilled the obligations and responsibilities of the old law and its worship. He had observed the sacrament of the Old Testament for the... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 22:23

AND THEY BEGAN TO ENQUIRE AMONG THEMSELVES WHICH OF THEM IT WAS THAT SHOULD DO THIS THING. See Matthew 26:1; Mark 14:18. Jesus had just established and instituted the meal of His grace and kindness and salvation. But during all this time His betrayer also had his hand on the same table, the traitor... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 22:25

AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, THE KINGS OF THE GENTILES EXERCISE LORDSHIP OVER THEM, AND THEY THAT EXERCISE AUTHORITY UPON THEM ARE CALLED BENEFACTORS.... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 22:26

BUT YE SHALL NOT BE SO; BUT HE THAT IS GREATEST AMONG YOU, LET HIM BE AS THE YOUNGER; AND HE THAT IS CHIEF, AS HE THAT DOTH SERVE.... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 22:27

FOR WHETHER IS GREATER, HE THAT SITTETH AT MEAT, OR HE THAT SERVETH? IS NOT HE THAT SITTETH AT MEAT? BUT I AM AMONG YOU AS HE THAT SERVETH.... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 22:30

that ye may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Jesus had just told the apostles, in connection with the announcement of His betrayer, that He was going away, and they had begun a conversation upon the subject of the possible betrayer, inc... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 22:34

AND HE SAID, I TELL THEE, PETER, THE COCK SHALL NOT CROW THIS DAY BEFORE THAT THOU SHALT THRICE DENY THAT THOU KNOWEST ME. Jesus had now left the upper room of the supper and was probably on His way to Gethsemane with His disciples. On the way a conversation was begun, in the course of which the Lor... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 22:35

AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, WHEN I SENT YOU WITHOUT PURSE, AND SCRIP, AND SHOES, LACKED YE ANYTHING? AND THEY SAID, NOTHING.... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 22:36

THEN SAID HE UNTO THEM, BUT NOW, HE THAT HATH A PURSE, LET HIM TAKE IT, AND LIKEWISE HIS SCRIP; AND HE THAT HATH NO SWORD, LET HIM SELL HIS GARMENT AND BUY ONE.... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 22:37

FOR I SAY UNTO YOU THAT THIS THAT IS WRITTEN MUST YET BE ACCOMPLISHED IN ME, AND HE WAS RECKONED AMONG THE TRANSGRESSORS; FOR THE THINGS CONCERNING ME HAVE AN END.... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 22:38

AND THEY SAID, LORD, BEHOLD, HERE ARE TWO SWORDS. AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, IT IS ENOUGH. This section is not a digression, but has a very close connection with the foregoing. It was on account of the constant watchfulness and solicitude of the Lord that His disciples had been protected so well; and it... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 22:44

AND BEING IN AN AGONY HE PRAYED MORE EARNESTLY; AND HIS SWEAT WAS AS IT WERE GREAT DROPS OF BLOOD FALLING DOWN TO THE GROUND.... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 22:46

AND SAID UNTO THEM, WHY SLEEP YE? RISE AND PRAY, LEST YE ENTER INTO TEMPTATION. Jesus had the habit of going over to Mount Olivet often, to a certain garden called Gethsemane, the place of the oil-press, and on this fine moonlight night, when only the depths of the Kidron Valley were in shadow, He c... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 22:47

AND WHILE HE YET SPAKE, BEHOLD A MULTITUDE, AND HE THAT WAS CALLED JUDAS, ONE OF THE TWELVE, WENT BEFORE THEM, AND DREW NEAR UNTO JESUS TO KISS HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 22:52

THEN JESUS SAID UNTO THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND CAPTAINS OF THE TEMPLE AND THE ELDERS WHICH WERE COME TO HIM, BE YE COME OUT, AS AGAINST A THIEF, WITH SWORDS AND STAVES?... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 22:53

WHEN I WAS DAILY WITH YOU IN THE TEMPLE, YE STRETCHED FORTH NO HANDS AGAINST ME; BUT THIS IS YOUR HOUR AND THE POWER OF DARKNESS. While Jesus was still speaking, He had probably moved down to the entrance of the garden, there to be joined by the eight disciples whom He had left near the road. And ab... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 22:55

AND WHEN THEY HAD KINDLED A FIRE IN THE MIDST OF THE HALL, AND WERE SET DOWN TOGETHER, PETER SAT DOWN AMONG THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 22:56

BUT A CERTAIN MAID BEHELD HIM AS HE SAT BY THE FIRE, AND EARNESTLY LOOKED UPON HIM, AND SAID, THIS MAN WAS ALSO WITH HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 22:59

AND ABOUT THE SPACE OF ONE HOUR AFTER, ANOTHER CONFIDENTLY AFFIRMED, SAYING, OF A TRUTH THIS FELLOW ALSO WAS WITH HIM; FOR HE IS A GALILEAN.... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 22:61

AND THE LORD TURNED, AND LOOKED UPON PETER. AND PETER REMEMBERED THE WORD OF THE LORD, HOW HE HAD SAID UNTO HIM, BEFORE THE COCK CROW, THOU SHALT DENY ME THRICE.... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 22:62

AND PETER WENT OUT AND WEPT BITTERLY. There was little rest, and no sleep, in the palace of. the high priest that night. The departure of the band had caused great excitement throughout the household, and its victorious return caused all the servants to be worked up to the highest pitch. For the tim... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 22:64

AND WHEN THEY HAD BLINDFOLDED HIM, THEY STRUCK HIM ON THE FACE, AND ASKED HIM, SAYING, PROPHESY, WHO IS IT THAT SMOTE THEE?... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 22:65

AND MANY OTHER THINGS BLASPHEMOUSLY SPAKE THEY AGAINST HIM. See Matthew 26:67; Mark 14:65. The servants of the high priest and the elders were meanwhile having their sport with the captured Prophet of Galilee, and their rude jests and blasphemous mockeries were committed unreproved. They derided Him... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 22:66

AND AS SOON AS IT WAS DAY, THE ELDERS OF THE PEOPLE AND THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE SCRIBES CAME TOGETHER, AND LED HIM INTO THEIR COUNCIL, SAYING,... [ Continue Reading ]

Luke 22:71

AND THEY SAID, WHAT NEED WE ANY FURTHER WITNESS? FOR WE OURSELVES HAVE HEARD OF HIS OWN MOUTH. See Matthew 26:59; Mark 14:55. Luke gives a summary of both the night meeting at the palace of the high priest and of the morning meeting, in which the sentence of the night was repeated and confirmed. As... [ Continue Reading ]

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