Luke 22:2

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Luke 22:2-5

PLANNING THE BETRAYAL‘The chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill Him … Then entered Satan into Judas … And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money.’Luke 22:2-Deuteronomy :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. I. The first step in... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 22:1-2

‘Now the feast of unleavened bread drew near, which is called the Passover, and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might put him to death, for they feared the people.’ Day by day the Passover or Feast of Unleavened Bread (the two feasts were seen as one and could be called by either name, as we also discover from Josephus, compare also Matthew 26:17) drew nearer, and day by day the Chief Priests and Scribes sought ways of getting rid of Him. Note how it is emphasised that it was... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 22:1-71

Jesus Is Crucified And Rises Again (22:1-24:53). We now come to the final Section of Luke which is also in the form of a chiasmus (see analysis below). Central in this final chiasmus is the crucifixion of Jesus. This brings out how central the crucifixion is in the thinking of Luke. As the Servant of the Lord He is to be numbered among the transgressors for their sakes (Luke 22:37). This is indeed what the Gospel has been leading up to, something that is further demonstrated by the space given... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Luke 22:1-2

Luke 22:1 f. The Decision of the Chief Priests ( Mark 14:1 f.*, Matthew 26:1-Deuteronomy : *). Luke 22:1. The feast of unleavened bread (Nisan 15– 21) was really distinct from the Passover (Nisan 14), though the close association of the two led them to be spoken of as one, and even identified by Gentiles like Luke. Cf. p. 103. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Luke 22:1-2

See Poole on "Matthew 26:1" and following verses to Matthew 26:5, See Poole on "Mark 14:1-2". read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Luke 22:1-6

CRITICAL NOTESLuke 22:1 Feast of unleavened bread.—Which lasted for a week. Called the Passover.—An explanation for Gentile readers. Strictly speaking, it was the 15th Nisan, and not the whole week, that was the Passover, “the great day of the feast.”Luke 22:2. Chief priests, etc.—The Pharisees now drop out of the foreground. Those now most active against Christ were the Sadducean party. Sought.—This corresponds to the calling of the council and the deliberation spoken of in John 11:47. For... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Luke 22:1-71

Luke's gospel, chapter 22.Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover ( Luke 22:1 ).The Feast of Unleavened Bread actually was for six days, from the fifteenth of Nizan to the twenty-first. However, the fifteenth of Nizan was the day of the Passover. And so it was drawing nigh. People were beginning to prepare for it. Two days before the feast they would go through the house with brooms and brushes and make sure that they got rid of all of the leaven out of the... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Luke 22:1-71

Luke 22:1 . The feast of unleavened bread drew nigh. See Matthew 26:2-3. Luke 22:3 . Then Satan entered into Judas, by divine permission, his reigning sin of covetousness having proved his destruction. Judas after that was Satan’s instrument. Luke 22:4 . He went his way, and communed with the chief priests and στρατηγοι , captains. The offices of priests and levites, of the twenty four courses, had each a superior; but these were captains of the temple, and called by that military... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Luke 22:1-2

Luke 22:1-2Sought how they might kill HimThe conspiracy against ChristThis chapter gives us a sad and sorrowful relation of the chief priests’ conspiracy against the life of our blessed Saviour; in which we have three particulars observable: 1.The persons making this conspiracy, the chief priests, scribes, and elders; that is, the whole Jewish sanhedrim, or general council; they all lay their malicious heads together, to contrive the destruction of the holy and innocent Jesus. Thence learn,... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Luke 22:2

2 And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people. Ver. 2. How they might kill him ] Not put him to death as judges, but kill him as cutthroats, ανελωσι . So Acts 2:23 . read more