John Trapp Complete Commentary
Luke 22:38
And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough.
Ver. 38. It is enough] q.d. You speak absurdly: I mean not such kind of swords; let me hear no more of them.
And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough.
Ver. 38. It is enough] q.d. You speak absurdly: I mean not such kind of swords; let me hear no more of them.
Verse 38. _LORD, BEHOLD, HERE ARE TWO SWORDS. AND HE SAID UNTO_ _THEM, IT IS ENOUGH._] These words cannot be well understood as being an answer to the supposed command of Christ, _for every one_ _who...
ARE TWO SWORDS - The Galileans, it is said, often went armed. The Essenes did so also. The reason was that the country was full of robbers and wild beasts, and it was necessary to carry, in their trav...
VI. HIS REJECTION, SUFFERING AND DEATH -- CHAPTER 22-23 CHAPTER 22 _ 1. The Betrayer. (Luke 22:1 .)_ 2. Preparation for the Passover. (Luke 22:7 .) 3. The Last Passover. (Luke 22:14 .) 4. The Lord...
In these verses (Lk. only) Jesus announces a change of method from that advocated in Luke 9:3; Luke 10:4. Montefiore soundly says Luke 22:35 f. must be considered apart from Luke 22:
AND SATAN ENTERED INTO JUDAS (Luke 22:1-6)...
,54-62 "Simon, Simon, Jesus said, "Look you, Satan has been allowed to have you that he may sift you like wheat. But I have prayed for you that your faith may not wholly fail. And you--when you have t...
BUT NOW, &c. Showing that precepts given when the kingdom was being proclaimed, no longer held good when it had been rejected. NO SWORD. not [money]. Greek. _me._ App-105. ONE. a sword....
_here are two swords_ It was a last instance of the stolid literalism by which they had so often vexed our Lord (Matthew 16:6-12). As though He could have been thinking of two miserable swords, such a...
ΜΆΧΑΙΡΑΙ … ΔΎΟ. It was a last instance of the stolid literalism by which they had so often vexed our Lord (Matthew 16:6-12). As though He could have been thinking of two miserable swords, such as poor...
THE LAST SUPPER...
Ver 35. And he said to them, When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked you any thing? And they said, Nothing. 36. Then said he to them, But now, he that has a purse, let him take it,...
_JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES -- LUKE 22:23-46:_ The disciples had some interesting discussions about who would ever do such a thing as to betray Jesus. They also discussed who would be greatest in the kin...
LORD, BEHOLD, HERE ARE TWO SWORDS.— Our Lord's disciples, mistaking his meaning about the _swords,_ replied, they had _two:_ the reason why they had any at all, probably, was, that they might defend t...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Last Passover Feast Scripture_ Luke 22:7-38 And the day of unleavened bread came, on which the passover must be sacrificed. 8 And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and make...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Care (Luke 22:31-38) 31 Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, 32but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail; and...
And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them, It is enough. AND THEY SAID, LORD, BEHOLD, HERE ARE TWO SWORDS. Honest souls! They thought He referred to present defense,...
19-20 Compare Mat_26:26-28; Mar_14:22-24; 1Co_11:23-26. 21-23 Compare Mat_26:21-25; Mar_14:18-21; Joh_13:18-30; Psa_41:9. 23 How sad it is to see the self-centered apostles, whose hearts should have...
HERE _are_ TWO SWORDS] The disciples thought that Jesus advised them to buy swords to protect Him from arrest. They pointed out, therefore, that they had two already, with which they were prepared to...
TREASON OF JUDAS. THE LAST SUPPER. THE AGONY IN THE GARDEN. ARREST OF JESUS. THE JEWISH TRIAL 1-6. Conspiracy of the chief priests. Treachery of Judas (Matthew 26:1; Matthew 26:14; Mark 14:1;...
JESUS DIRECTS HIS DISCIPLES TO MAKE PROVISION FOR A TIME OF PERSECUTION (peculiar to Lk). 'The meaning of our Lord in this much controverted passage appears to be to forewarn the apostles of the outwa...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 22 THE PLOT TO KILL JESUS 22:1-6 V1 The time was near for the *feast of *Unleavened Bread, or *Passover. V2 The chief priests and teachers of the law...
BEHOLD, HERE ARE TWO SWORDS. — Peter, we find, had one (John 18:10); we can only conjecture who had the other. Possibly, Andrew; possibly, one of “the sons of thunder.” IT IS ENOUGH. — Here again ther...
CHAPTER 24 THE WATCH IN GETHSEMANE. HITHERTO the life of Jesus has been comparatively free from sorrow and from pain. With the exception of the narrow strip of wilderness which fell between the Bapti...
Luke 18:1 CHAPTER 11 CONCERNING PRAYER. WHEN the Greeks called man ό ανθρωπος, or the "uplooking one," they did but crystallize in a word what is a universal fact, the religious instinct of humanit...
μάχαιραι δύο : how did such a peaceable company come to have even so much as one sword? Were the two weapons really swords, fighting instruments, or large knives? The latter suggestion, made by Chryso...
_Coming danger_, peculiar to Lk. There is danger ahead physically as well as morally. Jesus turns now to the physical side. What He says about a sword is not to be taken literally. It is a vivid way o...
DRINKING THE CUP FOR OTHERS Luke 22:35-46 Our Lord knew to what He was going. All lay naked and open before His eyes. He laid down His life of Himself; but in this supreme act of love He suffered be...
Here we have the record of final things before the Cross. The priests and the devil are seen in coalition. As the end approached, the Master is seen with the shadow of the Cross on Him, desiring to e...
Behold here are two swords, &c. The disciples not understanding the hidden meaning of the words in the preceding verse, and thinking they should have need of swords against the attack of the traitor J...
JESUS PREDICTS THE FALL OF PETER AND THE DISPERSION OF THE APOSTLES Matthew 26:31-35; Mark 14:27-31; Luke 22:31-38; Jo
3. _The Conversations after the Supper: Luke 22:24-38_. The conversations which follow refer: 1 _st._ To a dispute which arises at this moment between the apostles (Luke 22:24-30); 2 _d._ To the dange...
“ _And He said unto them, When I sent you without purse and scrip and shoes, lacked ye anything? And they said, Nothing._ 36. _Then He said unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, a...
2 _d. Luke 22:31-38_. Jesus announces to His disciples, first the moral danger which threatens them (Luke 22:31-34); then the end of the time of temporal well-being and security which they had enjoyed...
II. _The Last Supper: Luke 22:7-38_. We find ourselves here face to face with a difficulty which, since the second century of the Church, has arrested the attentive readers of the Scriptures. As it wa...
"Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed. (8) And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat. (9) And they said unto him, Where wil...
The last chapter gave in the judgment of present things, another world and eternal things in good and evil, the Lord's instruction for the disciples after the dealings of grace in Luke 15:1-32, and th...
38._Lord, lo, here are two swords. _It was truly shameful and stupid ignorance, that the disciples, after having been so often informed about bearing the cross, imagine that they must fight with _swor...
In chapter 22, Luke commence the details of the end of our Lord's life. The chief priests, fearing the people, seek how they may kill Him. Judas, under the influence of Satan, offers himself as an ins...
AND THEY SAID, LORD, BEHOLD HERE ARE TWO SWORDS,.... That is, the disciples said so, as the Persic version expresses it; for they understood Christ's words literally; and two swords being among them,...
IT IS ENOUGH; they needed the sword of the Spirit, the shield of faith, the breastplate of righteousness, and the helmet of salvation....
The seriousness of the coming danger:...
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 co...
THE TREACHERY OF JUDAS (vs.1-6) As the Passover feast drew near, the chief priests and Pharisees felt hard pressed to find some way of apprehending and killing this "prophet" who was offending their...
21-38 How unbecoming is the worldly ambition of being the greatest, to the character of a follower of Jesus, who took upon him the form of a servant, and humbled himself to the death of the cross! In...
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Luke 22:38 So G1161 said G2036 (G5627) Lord G2962 look G2400 (G5628) here G5602 two G1417 swords...
JESUS IS CRUCIFIED AND RISES AGAIN (22:1-24:53). We now come to the final Section of Luke which is also in the form of a chiasmus (see analysis below). Central in this final chiasmus is the crucifixio...
JESUS ADVANCES TO THE GUEST-CHAMBER (22:7-38). It is no coincidence that near the beginning of Luke's Gospel there was no room for Jesus in the ‘kataluma' (Luke 2:7 - place to stay, guestchamber), but...
CRISIS POINT IS REACHED IN THE GUESTCHAMBER (22:14-38). In this passage we have described what occurred in the Guestchamber. This divides up into five sections. OVERALL ANALYSIS. a Jesus manifests...
THE URGENCY OF THE HOUR IS SUCH THAT IT REQUIRES SWORDS (22:35-38). The dark outlook of Jesus' words continues. He must suffer (Luke 22:15), He must be betrayed (Luke 22:21), He has endured testings a...
‘And they said, “Lord, behold, here are two swords.” And he said to them, “It is enough.” So at His words the blinkered, and no doubt puzzled, disciples, wondering why He had become so suddenly concer...
Luke 22:35-38. WARNING IN REGARD TO OUTWARD DANGERS, leading to the incident of the two swords. Peculiar to Luke. We join this chronologically with what precedes. No order is more probable, and there...
Luke presents a number of new details: Luke 22:7-13 narrate the preparation with greatest fulness, mentioning the names of the two disciples who were sent for this purpose; the affecting words (Luke 2...
Luke 22:38. LORD, BEHOLD HERE ARE TWO SWORDS. Swords, not knives used at the feast, probably belonging to the disciples. The Galileans often travelled armed, and possibly two of the disciples had thus...
LORD, BEHOLD, HERE ARE TWO SWORDS (κυριε ιδου μαχαιρα ωδε δυο). They took his words literally. And before this very night is over Peter will use one of these very swords to try to cut off the head o...
Luke 22:14. _And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him. And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer: for I say unto...
Luke 22:7. Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed. And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat. And they said unto him, Where w...
Luke 22:7. Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed. And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat. And they said unto him, Where w...
Luke 22:1. _Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover. And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people._ Dastardly fear of...
CONTENTS: Judas covenants to betray Jesus. Last passover. Lord's supper instituted. Peter's denial predicted. Jesus' arrest. Peter's denial. CHARACTERS: Jesus, priests, scribes, disciples, Judas, Pet...
Luke 22:1. _The feast of unleavened bread drew nigh._ See Matthew 26:2. Luke 22:3. _Then Satan entered into Judas,_ by divine permission, his reigning sin of covetousness having proved his destruction...
LOOK! HERE ARE TWO SWORDS. They take what he said in Luke 22:36 literally. THAT IS ENOUGH! He says this to show he does not mean them to literally arm themselves with swords, since two swords would no...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 22:38 LORD, HERE ARE TWO SWORDS. See note on vv. 35–36. ⇐...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 22:1 The Suffering and Death of Jesus. As Jesus’ death draws near, the scene shifts from the temple area to the city of Jerusalem. The emphasis shifts from Jesus’ teachings to events...
CHAPTER 22 VER.6. _And he sought opportunity to betray Him unto them._ Judas sold Jesus Christ on the fourth day of the week, the day of Mercury; on the following day, or the day of Jupiter, he delive...
_And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords._ They did not understand the mind and words of Christ clearly. He did not mean that they should buy swords, but He wished to show them the impending...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 22:21. HIM THAT BETRAYETH.—If the order of events be here given, it is clear that Judas partook of the last supper. Luke 22:22. DETERMINED.—Fixed by the counsel of God (cf. Acts...
EXPOSITION LUKE 23:1 THE LAST PASSOVER. LUKE 22:1, LUKE 22:2 Short explanatory introduction.
Luke's gospel, chapter 22. Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover (Luke 22:1). The Feast of Unleavened Bread actually was for six days, from the fifteenth of Nizan...
1 Peter 5:9; 1 Thessalonians 5:8; 2 Corinthians 10:3; 2 Corinthians 10:4;...
Here are two swords — Many of Galilee carried them when they travelled, to defend themselves against robbers and assassins, who much infested their roads. But did the apostles need to seek such defenc...