Luke 22:24-30 NIV

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 22:25

Are called benefactors - The very Greek word used by the evangelist, ευεργεται , was the surname of some of the Ptolemies of Egypt; Ptolemy Euergetes, i.e. the Benefactor. It was a custom among the ancient Romans to distribute part of the lands which they had conquered on the frontiers of the empire to their soldiers; those who enjoyed such lands were called beneficiarii , beneficed persons; and the lands themselves were termed beneficia, benefices , as being held on the beneficence of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 22:26

Let him be as the younger - Dr. Lightfoot justly conjectures that Peter was the eldest of all the disciples; and he supposes that the strife was kindled between him and the sons of Zebedee, James and John. These three disciples were those whom Christ had distinguished by peculiar marks of his favor; and therefore it is natural to conclude that the strife lay between these three, the two brothers and Peter. Shall we or Peter be at the head? Neither, says our Lord. Let him, Peter, who is chief... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 22:29

I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me - The Codex Alexandrinus, with some other MSS., the later Syriac, and Origen, read in the first clause, διαθηκην , a covenant. I appoint unto you a Covenant, as my Father hath appointed unto me a kingdom: - Ye shall be ministers of the new covenant, as I am king in that spiritual kingdom to which it relates. This is a curious reading: but our Lord is probably to be understood as promising that they should get a kingdom - a... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 22:30

Sit on thrones - See on Matthew 19:28 ; (note). Marcion left the whole of this verse out, according to Epiphanius: probably because he did not understand it. read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 22:28

Verse 28 Luke 22:28.You are they who have continued with me. Although Luke appears to relate a different discourse of Christ, and one which was delivered at a different time, yet I have no doubt that it refers to the same time. For it is not a continued discourse of Christ that is here related, but detached sentences, without any regard to the order of time, as we shall shortly afterwards have occasion to state. But he employs more words than Matthew; for he declares that, as the apostles had... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 22:29

Verse 29 29.And I appoint to you the kingdom. Here he makes them not only judges, but kings; for he shares with them the kingdom which he received from the Father There is an emphasis in the word appoint, that they may not, by warmth and vehemence of desire, hasten too eagerly to possess the kingdom of which he alone has the lawful right to dispose. By his own example, also, he exhorts them to patience; for, though he was ordained by the Father to be a King, yet he was not immediately raised to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 22:1-30

Wednesday and Thursday of Passion Week. Look at that picture—the Son of God awaiting the hour; spending the last day before the arrest and the trial in the deep seclusion of the Bethany home. Over that day the veil of an impenetrable secrecy hangs. One thing only is certain—it was a time in which the shrinking spirit, whilst feeling even unto death the shadow of the exceeding heaviness, nevertheless drank of the brook by the way, the comforting "I am not alone, for the Father is with... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 22:14-38

The Last Supper. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 22:24

And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest. The Lord's words in these verses are peculiar to St. Luke. The strife among the disciples which suggested the Lord's corrective sayings was evidently no mere dispute as to precedence in their places at the supper, but some question as to their respective positions in the coming kingdom of which their Master had said so much in the course of his later instructions. It is closely connected with the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 22:24

Greatness after Christ. Three things claim our attention. I. APOSTOLIC FAILURE . When the apostles of our Lord came to look back on this most memorable evening, how pained and how ashamed they must have felt as they recollected this unseemly contest ( Luke 22:24 )! At the very hour when their Lord was manifesting his love and his forethought for his Church in two most striking and touching ways—at the very hour when his heart was torn with distracting sorrow by the desertion and... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 22:25

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 22:26

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 22:29

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 22:30

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 22:28

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 22:29

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 22:1-30

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 22:14-38

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 22:24

The Pulpit Commentary - Luke 22:24

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