# Luke 22 📖: The Lord's Supper and Betrayal [[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[-Luke Overview]] | [[Luke 21]] | [[Luke 23]] > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] > [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights]] > [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] > [[#✝️ Christ in This Chapter]] > [[#🔎 Key Observations / 🛟 Life Application]] > [[#💬 Discussion Questions]] > [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🔗 Related Passages]] > [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] > [[#📂 Internal Notes]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) ### Judas’ Decision to Betray Jesus **Principle**: The plan comes into focus. [[#Verse 01.]] Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which is called the Passover, was approaching.  [[#Verse 02.]] The chief priests and the experts in the law were trying to find some way to execute Jesus, for they were afraid of the people. [[#Verse 03.]] Then Satan entered Judas, the one called Iscariot, who was one of the twelve.  [[#Verse 04.]] He went away and discussed with the chief priests and officers of the temple guard how he might betray Jesus, handing him over to them.  [[#Verse 05.]] They were delighted and arranged to give him money.  [[#Verse 06.]] So Judas agreed and began looking for an opportunity to betray Jesuswhen no crowd was present. ### The Passover **Principle**: Jesus prepares the way before you. [[#Verse 07.]] Then the day for the feast of Unleavened Bread came, on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.  [[#Verse 08.]] Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover for us to eat.” [[#Verse 09.]] They said to him, “Where do you want us to prepare it?”  [[#Verse 10.]] He said to them, “Listen, when you have entered the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you.Follow him into the house that he enters,  [[#Verse 11.]] and tell the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher says to you, “Where is the guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?”’ [[#Verse 12.]] Then he will show you a large furnished room upstairs. Make preparations there.”  [[#Verse 13.]] So they went and found things just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover. ### The Lord’s Supper [[Matthew 26]], [[Mark 14]] **Principle**: Jesus- the Perfect Sacrifice [[#Verse 14.]] Now when the hour came, Jesus took his place at the table and the apostles joined him.  [[#Verse 15.]] And he said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. [[#Verse 16.]] For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”  [[#Verse 17.]] Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks he said, “Take this and divide it among yourselves.  [[#Verse 18.]] For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.” [[#Verse 18.]] For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”  [[#Verse 19.]] Then he took bread, and after giving thanks he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” [[#Verse 20.]] And in the same way he took the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood. ### A Final Discourse **Principle**: Kingdom greatness is opposite of worldly fame. [[#Verse 21.]] “But look, the hand of the one who betrays me is with me on the table.  [[#Verse 22.]] For the Son of Man is to go just as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!”  [[#Verse 23.]] So they began to question one another as to which of them it could possibly be who would do this. [[#Verse 24.]] A dispute also started among them over which of them was to be regarded as the greatest.  [[#Verse 25.]] SoJesus said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in authority over them are called ‘benefactors.’  [[#Verse 26.]] Not so with you; instead the one who is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader like the one who serves. [[#Verse 27.]] For who is greater, the one who is seated at the table, or the one who serves? Is it not the one who is seated at the table? But I am among you as one who serves. [[#Verse 28.]] “You are the ones who have remained with me in my trials.  [[#Verse 29.]] Thus I grant to you a kingdom, just as my Father granted to me,  [[#Verse 30.]] that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. [[#Verse 31.]] “Simon, Simon, pay attention! Satan has demanded to have you all, to sift you like wheat, [[#Verse 32.]] but I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. When you have turned back,strengthen your brothers.”  [[#Verse 33.]] But Peter said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!”  [[#Verse 34.]] Jesus replied, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow today until you have denied three times that you know me.” [[#Verse 35.]] Then Jesus said to them, “When I sent you out with no money bag, or traveler’s bag, or sandals, you didn’t lack anything, did you?” They replied,“Nothing.”  [[#Verse 36.]] He said to them, “But now, the one who has a money bag must take it, and likewise a traveler’s bag too. And the one who has no sword must sell his cloak and buy one.  [[#Verse 37.]] For I tell you that this scripture must be fulfilled in me, ‘**_And he was counted with the transgressors_**.’ For what is written about me is being fulfilled.” [[Isaiah 53]] [[#Verse 38.]] So they said, “Look, Lord, here are two swords.” Then he told them, “It is enough.” ### On the Mount of Olives **Principle**: Jesus teaches us now to pray in difficulty. [[#Verse 39.]] Then Jesus went out and made his way, as he customarily did, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed him.  [[#Verse 40.]] When he came to the place, he said to them, “Pray that you will not fall into temptation.”  [[#Verse 41.]] He went away from them about a stone’s throw, knelt down, and prayed,  [[#Verse 42.]] “Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me. Yet not my will but yours be done.”  [[#Verse 43.]] Then an angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him.  [[#Verse 44.]] And in his anguish he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground. [[#Verse 45.]] When he got up from prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, exhausted from grief.  [[#Verse 46.]] So he said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you will not fall into temptation!” ### Betrayal and Arrest **Principle**: Jesus loves His enemies. [[#Verse 47.]] While he was still speaking, suddenly a crowd appeared, and the man named Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He walked up to Jesus to kiss him.  [[#Verse 48.]] But Jesus said to him, “Judas, would you betray the Son of Man with a kiss?”  [[#Verse 49.]] When those who were around him saw what was about to happen, they said, “Lord, should we use our swords?” [[#Verse 50.]] Then one of them struck the high priest’s slave, cutting off his right ear. [[#Verse 51.]] But Jesus said, “Enough of this!” And he touched the man’sear and healed him.  [[#Verse 52.]] Then Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple guard, and the elders who had come out to get him, “Have you come out with swords and clubs like you would against an outlaw?  [[#Verse 53.]] Day after day when I was with you in the temple courts, you did not arrest me. But this is your hour, and that of the power of darkness!” ### Jesus’ Condemnation and Peter’s Denials **Principle**: The pressure reveals the heart. [[#Verse 54.]] Then they arrested Jesus, led him away, and brought him into the high priest’s house. But Peter was following at a distance.  [[#Verse 55.]] When they had made a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter sat down among them.  [[#Verse 56.]] Then a slave girl, seeing him as he sat in the firelight, stared at him and said, “This man was with him too!”  [[#Verse 57.]] But Peter denied it: “Woman, I don’t know him!”  [[#Verse 58.]] Then a little later someone else saw him and said, “You are one of them too.” But Peter said, “Man, I am not!”  [[#Verse 59.]] And after about an hour still another insisted, “Certainly this man was with him, because he too is a Galilean.”  [[#Verse 60.]] But Peter said, “Man, I don’t know what you’re talking about!” At that moment, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed. [[#Verse 61.]] Then the Lord turned and looked straight at Peter, and Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, “Before a rooster crows today, you will deny me three times.”  [[#Verse 62.]] And he went outside and wept bitterly. ## Jesus Mocked and Beaten **Principle**: People destroy beauty when they do not perceive it's value. [[#Verse 63.]] Now the men who were holding Jesus under guard began to mock him and beat him.  [[#Verse 64.]] They blindfolded him and asked him repeatedly,“Prophesy! Who hit you?”  [[#Verse 65.]] They also said many other things against him, reviling him. ## Jesus Faces the Sanhedrin **Principle**: Don't cast your pearls before swine. [[#Verse 66.]] When day came, the council of the elders of the people gathered together, both the chief priests and the experts in the law. Then they led Jesus away to their council  [[#Verse 67.]] and said, “If you are the Christ, tell us.” But he said to them, “If I tell you, you will not believe,  [[#Verse 68.]] and if I ask you, you will not answer.  [[#Verse 69.]] But from now on _the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand_ of the power of God.”  [[#Verse 70.]] So they all said, “Are you the Son of God, then?” He answeredthem, “You say that I am.”  [[#Verse 71.]] Then they said, “Why do we need further testimony? We have heard it ourselves from his own lips!” ## 📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ###### Verse 19. ###### Verse 20. ###### Verse 21. ###### Verse 22. ###### Verse 23. ###### Verse 24. ###### Verse 25. ###### Verse 26. ###### Verse 27. ###### Verse 28. ###### Verse 29. ###### Verse 30. ###### Verse 31. ###### Verse 32. ###### Verse 33. ###### Verse 34. ###### Verse 35. ###### Verse 36. ###### Verse 37. ###### Verse 38. ###### Verse 39. ###### Verse 40. ###### Verse 41. ###### Verse 42. ###### Verse 43. ###### Verse 44. ###### Verse 45. ###### Verse 46. ###### Verse 47. ###### Verse 48. ###### Verse 49. ###### Verse 50. ###### Verse 51. ###### Verse 52. ###### Verse 53. ###### Verse 54. ###### Verse 55. ###### Verse 56. ###### Verse 57. ###### Verse 58. ###### Verse 59. ###### Verse 60. ###### Verse 61. ###### Verse 62. ###### Verse 63. ###### Verse 64. ###### Verse 65. ###### Verse 66. ###### Verse 67. ###### Verse 68. ###### Verse 69. ###### Verse 70. ###### Verse 71. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights 1. The Feast of Unleavened Bread lasted seven days and began with the Passover meal (22:1; Exodus 12:15-18). 2. A man carrying a water jar (22:10) would stand out, since carrying water was usually women's work. 3. Luke mentions two cups at the meal (22:17, 20), fitting the several cups of wine shared at a Passover meal. 4. Jesus' words about the new covenant (22:20) fulfill Jeremiah 31:31-34. 5. Rulers of the Gentiles were often called "benefactors" (22:25), a title found on ancient coins and inscriptions. 6. Satan asked to sift the disciples like wheat (22:31). The "you" there is plural, but Jesus prays for Peter in particular (22:32). 7. Only Luke mentions that Jesus' sweat was like drops of blood (22:44), though some early manuscripts do not include verses 43-44. 8. Only Luke records that Jesus healed the ear of the high priest's servant (22:51). 9. Only Luke notes that the Lord turned and looked at Peter after the third denial (22:61). 10. Luke records the council meeting at daybreak (22:66), when a formal verdict could be given. ## 🧠 Chapter Summary > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## ✝️ Christ in This Chapter Christ is the Passover Lamb who gave His body and poured out His blood for the new covenant (22:19-20). He prayed for Peter's faith (22:32) and still intercedes for His people today (Hebrews 7:25). ## 🔎 Key Observations / 🛟 Life Application > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## 💬 Discussion Questions 1. Jesus eagerly desired to eat the Passover with His disciples (22:15). What does His desire for fellowship tell you about His heart? 2. Even at the Last Supper the disciples argued about who was the greatest (22:24-27). How does Jesus' example of serving challenge you? 3. Jesus prayed that Peter's faith would not fail and that once he turned back he would strengthen his brothers (22:32). How can your failures become a way to strengthen others? ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - 📖 verses 19-20: Jesus gives the bread as His body and the cup as the new covenant in His blood. - 📖 verse 27: Jesus is among His disciples as one who serves. - 📖 verse 32: Jesus prays that Peter's faith will not fail. - 📖 verse 42: Jesus prays for the Father's will, not His own, to be done. ## 🔗 Related Passages - 🔗 [[Exodus 12#Verse 01.|Exodus 12:1-20]] - The Passover and Unleavened Bread. - 🔗 [[John 13#Verse 27.|John 13:27]] - Satan enters Judas. - 🔗 [[1 Corinthians 11#Verse 23.|1 Corinthians 11:23-26]] - Paul's account of the Supper. - 🔗 [[Jeremiah 31#Verse 31.|Jeremiah 31:31-34]] - The new covenant. - 🔗 [[Mark 10#Verse 42.|Mark 10:42-45]] - The Son of Man came to serve. - 🔗 [[Job 01#Verse 06.|Job 1:6-12]] - Satan asks to test Job. - 🔗 [[Isaiah 53#Verse 12.|Isaiah 53:12]] - Numbered with the transgressors. - 🔗 [[John 21#Verse 15.|John 21:15-17]] - Peter restored. ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection 📝 SOAP: [[Luke 22 - SOAP|Preparing for God’s Presence]] ## 📂 Internal Notes