Luke 22:2
and the chief priests and scribes were looking for a way to put Jesus to death; for they feared the people.
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ASV
And the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death; for they feared the people.
KJV
And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.
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Commentary
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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.
Sources: Mishnah Pesachim 10:1 (the four cups) · The Lord's Supper (this site's study)
Original language & word study
15 tagged words| Original | Transliteration | Meaning | Word study |
|---|---|---|---|
| καὶ | kai | And | G2532 → |
| ἐζήτουν | ezētoun | were seeking | G2212 → |
| οἱ | hoi | the | G3588 → |
| ἀρχιερεῖς | archiereis | chief priests | G749 → |
| καὶ | kai | and | G2532 → |
| οἱ | hoi | the | G3588 → |
| γραμματεῖς | grammateis | scribes | G1122 → |
| τὸ | to | <the> | G3588 → |
| πῶς | pōs | how | G4459 → |
| ἀνέλωσιν | anelōsin | they may execute | G337 → |
| αὐτόν· | auton | him; | G846 → |
| ἐφοβοῦντο | ephobounto | they were afraid | G5399 → |
| γὰρ | gar | for | G1063 → |
| τὸν | ton | of the | G3588 → |
| λαόν. | laon | people. | G2992 → |
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