Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Luke 22:31
Satan hath desired to have you — My apostles, that he might sift you as wheat — Try you to the uttermost.
Satan hath desired to have you — My apostles, that he might sift you as wheat — Try you to the uttermost.
LUKE 22:31 Si,mwn (1) {B} The Textus Receptus, following a considerable number of witnesses, inserts ei=pen de. o` ku,rioj as if to mark the beginning of a new subject. On the strength of î75 B L T 1...
Verse 31. _SIMON, SIMON_] When a name is thus _repeated_ in the sacred writings, it appears to be always intended as an expression of _love_, manifested by a _warning_ voice. As if he had said, While...
SIMON - Peter. Jesus, foreseeing the danger of Peter, and knowing that he was about to deny him, took occasion to forewarn him and put him on his guard, and also to furnish him with a solace when he s...
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...
JESUS FORETELLS PETER'S DENIAL (Mark 14:27 *, Matthew 26:31 *). Contrast Luke 22:31 f. with Mk. and Mt. (All ye shall be offended, etc.). Luke 2
,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...
AND SATAN ENTERED INTO JUDAS (Luke 22:1-6)...
THE Lord. See App-98. B.C. SIMON, SIMON. The sixth example of this Figure of speech _Epizeuxis_ (App-6). See note on the first (Genesis 22:11). SATAN. See note on Matthew 4:10. HATH DESIRED. hath de...
_Simon_, _Simon_ The repetition of the name gave combined solemnity and tenderness to the appeal (Luke 10:41). _Satan hath desired to have you_ Rather, Satan demanded you (plur.), or -gained you by a...
THE LAST SUPPER...
ΣΊΜΩΝ ΣΊΜΩΝ. The repetition of the name gave combined solemnity and tenderness to the appeal (Luke 10:41). Comp. Acts 9:4. ἘΞΗΙΤΉΣΑΤΟ ὙΜΑ͂Σ. ‘Satan demanded you,’ or ‘gained you by asking;’ _all of_ y...
VER 31. AND THE LORD SAID, SIMON, SIMON, BEHOLD, SATAN HAS DESIRED TO HAVE YOU, THAT HE MAY SIFT YOU AS WHEAT: 32. BUT I HAVE PRAYED FOR YOU, THAT YOUR FAITH FAIL NOT: AND WHEN YOU ARE CONVERTED, STRE...
_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...
ΈΞΗΤΉΣΑΤΟ _aor. ind. med. от_ ΈΞΑΙΤΈΩ (G1809) просить, требовать, требовать сдаться (Marshall; TDNT). Med. указывает на личную заинтересованность сатаны (Arndt). ΣΙΝΙΆΣΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΣΙΝΙΆΖΩ...
DISCOURSE: 1576 THE MEANS OF SECURITY FROM SATAN’S MALICE Luke 22:31. _And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: but I have prayed for th...
SIMON! SIMON!— This repetition of the name of Simon, shews much earnestness in our Saviour, and intimates the great danger to which Peter was exposed. Our Lord speaks herein the plural,— υμας; "You, m...
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 the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: AND THE LORD SAID, SIMON, SIMON. On this reduplication of the name, see the note at Luke 10:...
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...
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;...
PETER'S FALL FORETOLD (common to all the evangelists). See on Matthew 26:31. St. Luke agrees with St. John that Jesus made the prediction in the supper-room. 31, 32. These two vv. are peculiar to St....
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...
AND THE LORD SAID, SIMON, SIMON. — The first three Gospels agree in placing the warning to Peter after the institution of the Lord’s Supper. The two-fold utterance of the name, as in the case of Marth...
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...
_Peter's weakness foretold_. With John (John 13:36-38) Lk. places this incident in the supper chamber. In Mt. and Mk. it occurs on the way to Gethsemane (Matthew 26:31-35; Mark 14:37-41). It is introd...
Σίμων, Σίμων : one can imagine, though not easily describe, how this was said with much affection and just enough of distress in the tone to make it solemn. ὁ Σατανᾶς. The reference to Satan naturally...
DISCIPLES WHO GRIEVE THEIR LORD Luke 22:24-34 It is probable that this dispute about priority took place on their entering the supper room. It could hardly have taken place after the tender scene of...
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...
(10) And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired [to have] you, that he may (l) sift [you] as wheat: (10) We must always think about the ambush that Satan lays for us. (l) To toss yo...
Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat. In these words is expressed both what Satan desired, and what God permitted. Satan desired leave to tempt them, that he might make them f...
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
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...
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...
“ _And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat._ 32. _But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not; and when thou art converted, stren...
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...
"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...
_STRENGTHEN THY BRETHREN_ Luke 22:31 After the strange struggle for the greatest position in that small party, the Lord gives them His warning, and lays down the condition of greatness in the new ki...
Luke 22:31._Lo_, _Satan hath desired. _The other two Evangelists relate more briefly and simply, that our Lord foretold to his disciples their fall. But the words of Luke contain more abundant instruc...
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 THE LORD SAID, SIMON, SIMON,.... Peter is particularly, and by name, spoken to, either because he might be a principal person in the debate and contention about superiority, mentioned in the conte...
And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired _to have_ you, that he may sift _you_ as wheat: Ver. 31. _Simon, Simon_] _q.d._ _Mi charissimo Simon._ Piscat. _ Satan hath desired, &c._]...
Luke 22:31. "And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat." The true meaning of these words seems to be this. It is ordered in providence that...
_And the Lord said_, &c. To make his disciples humble and watchful, and kindly affectionate one to another, Christ assured them, that Satan was seeking to destroy them all by his temptations. As if he...
SIFT YOU; all the apostles. AS WHEAT; greatly agitate your minds with inward and outward trials, to induce you, if possible, to deny men, apostatize, and perish....
AND THE LORD SAID, SIMON, SIMON, BEHOLD, SATAN HATH DESIRED TO HAVE YOU THAT HE MAY SIFT YOU AS WHEAT;...
THE WALK TO GETHSEMANE AND THE AGONY. The warning to Simon:...
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...
Ver. 31,32. Our Lord directeth his speech to Peter, as one who (as it will by and by appear) had a greater confidence of himself than the rest expressed, and as one who he foresaw would fall more foul...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans the son of Josedech, who sought to "sift the faith"[51] Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV says: "You will escape the energy of the wild beast, if your hea...
Luke 22:31 And G1161 Lord G2962 said G2036 (G5627) Simon G4613 Simon G4613 Indeed G2400 (G5628) Satan...
“Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat,” There is an important emphasis in this passage that emphasises what has gone before. It is clear that Jesus regularly...
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...
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...
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...
Luke 22:31-34. THE PREDICTION OF PETER'S DENIAL. This we regard as identical with the prediction recorded by John (John 13:36-38), and distinct from and prior to that mentioned by Matthew and Mark. It...
Luke 22:31. SIMON, SIMON. Earnestness and affection are indicated by the repetition. The apostle is addressed by his old name, not the new and significant one. The sudden call (‘And the Lord said' is...
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...
ASKED TO HAVE YOU (εξηιτησατο). First aorist indirect middle indicative of εξαιτεω, an old verb to beg something of one and (middle) for oneself. Only here in the N.T. The verb is used either in th...
WHEAT Peter was the wheat, his self-confidence the chaff. Compare (Matthew 13:30); (John 5:24); (John 10:23); (Romans 6:1); ...
Luke 22:31 These words contain a warning, a comforting assurance and a solemn charge. Note: I. The warning. We must remember that the word "you" is not used here in the sense of our common language t...
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...
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 22:14. _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...
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...
SIM, SIMON! LISTEN! For notes on this prediction and warning, see Matthew 26:31-35. Peter was so confident here! But when the time actually came, he did deny Jesus, and even used a vow to make it stro...
_Satan hath desired to have you_ THE TEMPTATION OF ST. Peter Our Lord is conversing here with His dear disciples a little before His crucifixion. In the tenderness of His heart, He almost thanks the...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 22:31 SATAN DEMANDED TO HAVE YOU (compare Job 1:1), THAT HE MIGHT SIFT YOU LIKE WHEAT. “You” is plural in these two instances, indicati
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...
Jesus predicts Peter's denial Matthew 26:31-35; Mark 14:27-31; Luke 22:31-34; John 13:36-38;...
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...
_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 5:8; Acts 9:4; Amos 9:9; Job 1:8; Job 2:3;...
Hath desired [ε ξ η τ η σ α τ ο]. Only here in New Testament. It sometimes means to obtain by asking, or to beg off. So Xenophon, "Anabasis," 1, 1, 3. The mother of Cyrus, who is charged with an attem...
Here. shall give, 1. The general sense of the words. 2. The particular matters contained in them. 3. The special observation from them. The sense of the words is this; as for you my disciples in ge...