The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 22:15-16
The Passion, from two standpoints. I. As IT LOOKED TO OUR LORD WHEN HE WAS APPROACHING IT . It was to him a terrible trial, which he was eager to reach and pass through. "With desire he desired" the time to arrive when he should suffer and should complete his work. He did not wish to escape it; he was not looking about for an alternative; he knew that he could not save himself if he would save the world; and he longed for the trial-time to come and to be passed. Here... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 22:15
And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer . This peculiar expression, "with desire," etc., is evidently a reproduction by St. Luke of the Lord's very words repeated to him originally in Aramaic (Hebrew), They seem to be a touching apology or explanation from him to his own, for thus anticipating the regular Passover Supper by twenty-four hours. He had been longing with an intense longing to keep this last Passover with them: First as... read more