Luke 22
Luke 22 is the twenty-second chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It commences in the days just before the Passover or Feast of Unleavened Bread, and records the plot to kill Jesus Christ, the institution of the Lord's Supper, Jesus' arrest and his trial before the Sanhedrin. The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke the Evangelist composed this Gospel as well as the Acts of the Apostles. This chapter initiates this gospel's passion narrative: according to Eric Franklin, if  the apocalyptic discourse in chapter 21 "bases all its thought upon the reality of the Kingdom", it also "leads directly into the passion narrative [which] shows how it was established". Text. The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 71 verses. It is the second longest chapter in the gospel in terms of the number of verses. Textual witnesses. Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are: Verses 1-6. describes the plot to kill Jesus, by the chief priests and scribes, in collaboration with Judas Iscariot. This scene is also depicted in  Mark 14:1–2, 10–11 and , . Luke's wording emphasises that Judas sought to betray Jesus "when no crowd was present", reflecting the chief priests' and scribes' fear that they could not openly arrest Jesus because of his popular support. John 11:45-57 also records the plot to kill Jesus. Verse 3. Luke alone of the synoptic writers sets the earthly events of the passion in the context of an eschatological battle with Satan. Verses 7-13. describes how Jesus sent Peter and John to prepare "a furnished upper room" (verse 12) for their taking of a Passover meal (which would be  the Last Supper). This preparation is also depicted in Mark 14:12–16 and Matthew 26:17-25. Luke's is the only account which names the apostles (verse 8) and the only narrative in which Jesus takes the initiative in arranging the meal: in Matthew and Mark, the disciples raise the subject. The farewell address. has been described as "Jesus' farewell address", modeled after other farewell addresses in the Greco-Roman and biblical traditions. Verse 15. Jesus declares to his apostles that "with fervent desire" (, "epithumia epithumesa") he has longed to celebrate this Passover with them. Pope Gregory X used these words  () as his text at the Second Council of Lyons in 1274, in his sermon on the unity of the churches. Verse 16. The word "again" is not in the Greek, but implied, and similarly in verse 18: David Robert Palmer suggests that "some copyists apparently felt obliged to add the Greek word οὐκέτι, ("ouketi") to both clarify the meaning, and also to harmonize Luke with , and perhaps also with , which says, 'from now on'." The Textus Receptus includes the work οὐκέτι in verse 16 but not verse 18. Verses 40-42. The words reflect Jesus' previous instructions to his disciples  on how to pray (the Lord's Prayer, ), although the words "thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven" do not appear in the earliest-known versions of Luke's Lord's Prayer. The Pulpit Commentary suggests that "the temptation in question was the grave sin of moral cowardice into which so soon the disciples fell". Verses 43-44. The authenticity of has been disputed by scholars since the second half of the 19th century. The verses are placed in double brackets in modern editions of the Greek text, and listed in a footnote in the Revised  Standard Version. Verse 45. Luke adds "from sorrow", words which do not appear in the accounts of Matthew or Mark. Verse 70. The New King James Version adds "rightly": Similarly, J. B. Phillips translates as: The Pulpit Commentary describes the style here as rabbinic: "by such an answer, the one interrogated accepts as his own affirmation the question put to him in its entirety." Verse 71. We have heard it ourselves that he "gives Himself out to be the Messiah". The chapter ends with the anticipated rejection of Jesus' self-witness and his resulting condemnation.