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C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Luke 22:45

sleeping Peter was sleeping while his Master was praying, Luke 22:45; Luke 22:45 resisting while his Master was submitting, Luke 22:49-51, he followed afar off; sat down amongst his Lord's enemies; and denied his Lord, the faith, and the brotherhood. read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Luke 22:44

Gethsemane February 8th, 1863 by C. H. SPURGEON (1834-1892) "And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground." Luke 22:44 . Few had fellowship with the sorrows of Gethsemane. The majority of the disciples were not there. They were not sufficiently advanced in grace to be admitted to behold the mysteries of "the agony." Occupied with the Passover feast at their own houses, they represent the many who live upon the... 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 22:31-34

Luke 22:31-34Satan hath desired to have youThe temptation of St.PeterOur Lord is conversing here with His dear disciples a little before His crucifixion. In the tenderness of His heart, He almost thanks them for their faithful adherence to Him (Luke 22:28-30). And now comes a sudden transition, showing us the strong feeling at work at this time in our Lord’s breast. He thinks the next moment of the perils these men will have to pass through in their way to those thrones, and gives them abruptly... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Luke 22:33

Luke 22:33Both to prison and to deathReligious emotionThat violent impulse is not the same as a firm determination--that men may have their religious feelings roused, without being on that account at all the more likely to obey God in practice, rather the less likely.As a general rule, the more religious men become, the calmer they become; and at all times the religious principle, viewed by itself, is calm, sober, and deliberate. Let us review some of the accidental circumstances I speak of. 1.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Luke 22:39-46

Luke 22:39-46The mount of OlivesThe mount of OlivesThe mountains are Nature’s monuments.Like the islands that dwell apart, and like them that give asylum from a noisy and irreverent world. Many a meditative spirit has found in their silence leisure for the longest thought, and in their Patmos-like seclusion the brightest visions and largest projects have evolved; whilst by a sort of overmastering attraction they have usually drawn to themselves the most memorable incidents which variegate our... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Luke 22:31

31 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: Ver. 31. Simon, Simon ] q.d. Mi charissimo Simon. Piscat. Satan hath desired, &c. ] As a challenger desireth to have one of the other side to combat with, as Goliath did. He cannot harm us without leave. So he desired to have Job, and had him. That he may sift you ] Cribratione Satanae non perditur, sed purgatur frumentum, saith Zanchy See Trapp on " Mat 3:12 " read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Luke 22:32

32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren. Ver. 32. But I have prayed ] So the plaster is ready made before the wound be given; for else the patient might perish, as those do that are stung with scorpions, if not presently anointed with oil of scorpions. That thy faith fail not ] It is our faith that Satan chiefly assaulteth: he knows that nihil retinct qui fidem perdidit. (Seneca.) Strengthen thy brethren ] So he doth... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Luke 22:33

33 And he said unto him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both into prison, and to death. Ver. 33. Lord, I am ready ] Thus Peter overweened his own abilities; being melius semper animatus quam armatus, better affected than appointed. read more

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