Luke 22:13
in Luke 22So they went and found it just as Jesus had told them. And they prepared the Passover.
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ASV
And they went, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.
KJV
And they went, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.
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This verse in Luke 22
Commentary
11 notes on this verseWhen then the disciples had prepared the passover, Christ ate it with them, being long-suffering towards the traitor, and deigning to admit him to the table from His infinite loving-kindness: for he was already a traitor, because Satan was lodging within him. And what did Christ also say to the holy apostles? "I have desired a desire to eat this passover with you." Let us examine the deep purport of this expression: let us search out the meaning concealed therein, and what it is which the Saviour intends.
This site's exposition
the owner of that house
on Luke 22:11-13
He will show them a large upper room, already furnished, spread with cushions for the reclining posture of a formal meal. They found it just as Jesus had told them. And they prepared the Passover, securing the lamb, unleavened bread, bitter herbs and wine the meal required.
This site's exposition
found it just as Jesus had told them
Everything fell out as Jesus had said, so his foreknowledge is shown before the meal begins. Cyril of Alexandria dwells on who sat at that table. Jesus admitted Judas to the meal from loving-kindness, though Satan was already lodging within him.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(ut sup.) But we should know that they who are taken up with banquetings and worldly cares do not ascend into that upper part of the house, and therefore do not keep the Passover with Jesus. For after the words of the disciples wherewith they questioned the goodman of the house, (that is, the understanding,) the Divine Person came into that house to feast there with His disciples.
The Medieval Church3 voices
Now on the same fifth day He sends two of His disciples to prepare the Passover, namely, Peter and John, the one in truth as loving, the other as loved. In all things showing, that even to the end of His life He opposed not the law. And He sends them to a strange house; for He and His disciples had no house, else would He have kept the Passover in one of them. So it is added, And they said, Where will thou that we prepare? He sends them for this reason to an unknown man: to show them that He voluntarily underwent His Passion, since He who so swayed the mind of one unknown to Him, that He should receive them, was able to deal with the Jews just as He wished. But some say that He gave not the name of the man, lest the traitor knowing his name might open the house to the Pharisees, and they should have come and taken Him before that the supper was eaten, and He had delivered the spiritual mysteries to His disciples. But He directs them by particular signs to a certain house; whence it follows, And ye shall say to the goodman of the house, The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, &c. And he will show you an upper room, &c. By the day of unleavened bread, we must understand that conversation which is wholly in the light of the Spirit, having lost all trace of the old corruption of Adam's first transgression. And living in this conversation, it becomes us to rejoice in the mysteries of Christ. Now these mysteries Peter and John prepare, that is, action and contemplation, fervid zeal and peaceful meekness. And these preparers a certain man meets, because in what we have just mentioned, lies the condition of man who was created after the image of God. And he carries a pitcher of water, which signifies the grace of the Holy Spirit. But the pitcher is humbleness of heart; for He giveth grace to the humble, who know themselves to be but earth and dust.
(non occ.) And perceiving these signs, the disciples zealously fulfilled all that had been commanded them; as it follows, And they went, and found as he had said unto them, and made ready the Passover.
Fourth, with respect to the perfect execution of the command, it is added: And going, they found just as Jesus had told them, and they prepared the Passover, in which is intimated the vigilance of the disciples, because they sought until they found, like that …
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
); for they need not fear a disappointment who go upon Christ's word; according to the orders given them, they got every thing in readiness for the passover,
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3 more voices on this verse
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And they went,.... From Bethany to Jerusalem: and found as he had said unto them; they met the man with the pitcher of water, and by following him, found the house Christ meant to keep the passover at; they told the master of it, what Christ ordered them, who immediately showed them a very convenient room, as he had described to them: and they made ready the passover; provided a lamb, and got it killed and dressed, and prepared every thing necessary for the keeping of the feast, according to divine appointment; See Gill on Mat 26:19.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
J.C. Ryle1816–1900
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1858)
proposed
The chapter which opens with these verses, begins Luke's account of our Lord's sufferings and death. No part of the Gospels is so important as this. The death of Christ — was the life of the world. No part of our Lord's history is so fully given by all the gospel writers as this. Only two of them describe the circumstances of Christ's birth. All four dwell minutely on Christ's death. And of all the four, no one supplies us with such full and interesting details as Luke.
A commentator
J.C. Ryle1816–1900
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1858)
proposed
The chapter which opens with these verses, begins Luke's account of our Lord's sufferings and death. No part of the Gospels is so important as this. The death of Christ — was the life of the world. No part of our Lord's history is so fully given by all the gospel writers as this. Only two of them describe the circumstances of Christ's birth. All four dwell minutely on Christ's death. And of all the four, no one supplies us with such full and interesting details as Luke. We see, firstly, in these verses — that high offices in the church do not preserve the holders of them from great blindness and sin. We read that "the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill Jesus." The first step in putting Christ to death, was taken by the religious teachers of the Jewish nation. The very men who ought to have welcomed the Messiah — were the men who conspired to kill Him. The very teachers who ought to have rejoiced at the appearing of the Lamb of God — had the chief hand in slaying Him. They sat in Moses' seat. They claimed to be "guides of the blind," and "lights of those who were in darkness." (Romans 2:19.) They belonged to the tribe of Levi. They were, most of them — in direct succession and descent from Aaron. Yet they were the very men who crucified the Lord of glory! With all their boasted knowledge — they were far more ignorant than the few Galilean fishermen who followed Christ. Let us beware of attaching an excessive importance to Christian ministers because of their office. Ordination and religious office confer no exemption from error. The greatest heresies have been sown, and the greatest practical abuses have been introduced into the church — by ordained men! Respect is undoubtedly due to high official position. Order and discipline ought not to be forgotten.
How the passage was read
On Luke 22:1-23On Luke 22:1-23
The cups on the table
Luke alone records TWO cups (22:17, 22:20), and the detail is at home in the feast: the Passover meal was ordered around four cups of wine, a structure already fixed in the Mishnah, the first written code of Jewish oral law (Pesachim 10:1). Passover (Pesach) is the spring feast remembering the exodus; its meal, the seder (“order”), moved through blessing, story, and psalm with a cup at each station. Jesus takes the feast's own furniture, and at the cup after supper says the words that made it new: “this cup... is the new covenant in my blood.”
The seder as Jewish families keep it today descends from the same order, reshaped after the Temple fell in AD 70; the lamb on the table then is matzah and remembrance now.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Sources: Mishnah Pesachim 10:1 (the four cups) · The Lord's Supper (this site's study)
The words behind it
10 Greek wordsEvery Greek word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Greek | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ἀπελθόντες | apelthontes | Having gone | G565 → | 115 times |
| δὲ | de | then | G1161 → | 2765 times |
| εὗρον | heuron | they found [it] | G2147 → | 175 times |
| καθὼς | kathos | even as | G2531 → | 182 times |
| εἰρήκει | eirekei | He had said | G2036 → | 925 times |
| αὐτοῖς, | autois | to them, | G846 → | 5565 times |
| καὶ | kai | and | G2532 → | 9120 times |
| ἡτοίμασαν | hetoimasan | they prepared | G2090 → | 40 times |
| τὸ | to | the | G3588 → | 19766 times |
| πάσχα. | pascha | Passover. | G3957 → | 29 times |
ἀπελθόντεςHaving gone
apelthontesG565 →115 times
δὲthen
deG1161 →2765 times
εὗρονthey found [it]
heuronG2147 →175 times
καθὼςeven as
kathosG2531 →182 times
εἰρήκειHe had said
eirekeiG2036 →925 times
αὐτοῖς,to them,
autoisG846 →5565 times
καὶand
kaiG2532 →9120 times
ἡτοίμασανthey prepared
hetoimasanG2090 →40 times
τὸthe
toG3588 →19766 times
πάσχα.Passover.
paschaG3957 →29 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
John 11:40Jesus replied, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?”
it leads to
- John 11:4
When Jesus heard this, He said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
- John 11:23–26
“Your brother will rise again,” Jesus told her.
- Romans 4:17–25
As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead…
- John 11:4
Through
Luke 21:33Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
it leads to
- Isaiah 40:8
The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”
- Mark 13:31
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
- Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
- Isaiah 40:8
Through
John 2:5His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever He tells you.”
it leads to
- Genesis 6:22
So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.
- John 15:14
You are My friends if you do what I command you.
- Genesis 6:22
Where this verse is studied
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About Luke
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This page draws on Bonaventure, Commentary on Luke, Chapter 22; Cyril of Alexandria, COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 141; Cyril of Alexandria, Commentary on Luke, Homily 141; Glossa Ordinaria, Catena Aurea by Aquinas; J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition); John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible; Origen of Alexandria, Catena Aurea by Aquinas and Theophylact of Ohrid, Catena Aurea by Aquinas.