LUKE.
22.
It was now almost time to celebrate the festival of Unleavened Bread, which  began with the Passover festival. 
The chief priests and the men who taught the  Jewish laws were seeking a way to kill Jesus.  But they wanted to do it secretly, because they were afraid that if  they did not do it secretly, the people  might riot. 
Then  even though Judas, who was called  the man from Kerioth  village, was one of the twelve  disciples, Satan entered him. 
Judas went and conferred with the chief priests and the officers of the Temple guards. He discussed with them how he could enable them to seize  Jesus. 
They were pleased  that he wanted to do that. They offered to give him money  for doing it. 
So he agreed,  and they gave him the money. Then he tried to find an opportunity to enable them to seize  Jesus when there was no crowd around him. 
Then the day during the  first part of the week-long festival of Unleavened Bread came,  the day when  the lambs  for the Passover  celebration had to be killed. 
So Jesus said to Peter and John, “Go and prepare the meal for the Passover  celebration.” 
They replied to him, “Where do you (sg) want us to prepare it?” 
He said to the  two of them, “Listen carefully. When you  two enter the city, a man who is carrying a  large jar of water will meet you. Follow him.  When he enters  a house, 
tell the owner of the house, ‘ Our teacher says  that we(exc) should ask  you(sg) to please show  us the room that  he arranged with you where he can eat the Passover  meal with  us, his disciples RHQ.’ 
He will show you a large room that is on the upper  floor of the house. It will be all set up  for a meal. Prepare the meal for us there.” 
So  the two disciples went  into the city. They found everything to be just like  Jesus had told them. So they prepared  the meal for the Passover  celebration there. 
When it was time MTY  to eat the Passover meal, Jesus  came and sat down with the  twelve apostles. 
He said to them, “I have greatly desired to eat this Passover  meal with you before I suffer  and die. 
I want you to know that I will not eat  the Passover meal again until all those whose lives God rules completely realize  what it represents.” 
Then he took a cup  of wine and thanked  God for it. Then he said, “Take this, and each of you drink some of it. 
I want you to know that  from now on I will not drink wine until God makes me king.” 
Then he took some bread and thanked God for it. He broke it  into pieces and gave it to them  to eat. He said, “This  bread represents my body, which  I am about to sacrifice for you. Keep on  eating bread this way  regularly to remember what I  have done for you.” 
Similarly, after  they had eaten the meal, he took  another cup  of wine. He said, “ The wine in MTY this cup represents my blood, which will soon flow  from my body when I die.  With this blood  I will sign the new agreement  that God is making with you. 
But  note that the one SYN who will enable my enemies to seize me is eating right here with me! 
 It is certain that I, the one who came from heaven, will die, because that is what  God has planned. But there will be terrible punishment for the man who will ◄betray me/enable my enemies to seize me►!” 
Then they began to ask one another, “Which of us would do such a thing?” 
 The apostles began to argue among themselves, saying, “Which one of us  will be the greatest  when Jesus becomes king?” 
So Jesus said to them, “The kings of the non-Jews  enjoy showing that they are powerful.  Yet they give  themselves the title, ‘ones who help the people.’ 
But you should not be like them! Instead, those who  want God to consider them the greatest should  act as though they were the youngest,  since the youngest are expected to serve the older ones. Whoever is a leader should be one who serves  the others. 
Keep in mind who is the most important one RHQ. It is certainly the one who  just sits at the table, not RHQ those who serve  the meal. But I,  your leader, have been  an example for you by serving you  while I have been among you. 
You are the ones who have stayed with me during all my troubles. 
So now, just like my Father has appointed me to rule as a king, I am appointing you 
so that you can sit and eat  and rule MET with me when I become king. You will sit on thrones to judge the people of the twelve tribes of Israel.” 
“Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has asked  God to let him test you, and God has permitted him to do it. Satan wants to cause you to suffer distress (OR,  distress you)  so that you will not believe/trust in me anymore/longer. He wants to shake you, just like a man shakes wheat in a sieve to sift it MET. 
But I have prayed for you, Simon, that you will not completely stop believing in me. So when you (sg) restore your relationship with me, help your fellow apostles  to trust in me more!” 
Peter said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you (sg) if they put you in prison, or even to die with you!” 
Jesus replied, “Peter, I want you (sg) to know that tonight, before the rooster crows, you will say three times that you do not know me!” 
Then  Jesus asked all of them, “After I sent you out  to other villages, and you went without taking any money or a  traveling bag or extra sandals, you did not lack anything, did you?” They replied, “ That’s right,  we(exc) did not  lack anything.” 
Then,  to show them that now many people would oppose them, (OR,  to show them that they needed to be prepared to protect themselves,) he said to them, “Now  things will be different. So whoever among you has some money should take it with him. Likewise, he should take a carrying bag. Whoever does not have a sword should sell his coat and buy a sword. 
Because, I now tell you,  something must happen to me to fulfill these words that a prophet wrote: ‘He was treated {They treated him} as  though he were a criminal.’ Do not forget that everything that is {that they have} written about me  in the Scriptures must be fulfilled.” 
 One of the disciples said, “Lord, look! We (exc) have two swords!” Realizing that they did not understand the meaning of what he said, he replied to them, “That is enough  talk about swords”! 
As  Jesus left  the city, he went, as he usually did, to Olive  Tree Hill. His disciples went with him. 
When he came to the place  where he often spent the night, he said to them, “Pray that  God will help you whenever something tempts you.” 
Then he went from them a distance of about 30 meters/yards. (OR, as far as someone can throw a stone.) He knelt and prayed, 
“ My Father, if you are willing  to do it, force me  to have to undergo these terrible things that  are about to happen to me MTY. But do not do what I want. Instead, do what you want.” 
Then an angel from heaven appeared to Jesus and caused him to become stronger. 
He was greatly distressed. So he prayed more earnestly. His sweat fell down on the ground as though it was large drops of blood. 
When he got up from praying, he returned to his disciples. He found that they were sleeping. They were exhausted because they were very sorrowful. 
He  woke them and said to them, “◄I am disappointed that you are sleeping!/Why are you sleeping?► RHQ Get up! Pray that  God will help you whenever you are tempted {when something  like this tempts you}!” 
While  Jesus was still speaking, a crowd  came to him. Judas,  even though he was one of the twelve  disciples, was leading them. He came close to Jesus and kissed him  on the cheek as if to greet him, but was really a signal to those with him which one was Jesus. 
Jesus said to him, “Judas, ◄I am disappointed that it is by kissing me that you are enabling  my enemies to seize  me, the one who came from heaven!/is it by kissing me  as though you loved me that you are enabling  my enemies to seize  me, the one who came from heaven?► RHQ” 
When the  disciples who were around Jesus realized what was going to happen, they said, “Lord, shall we (exc) strike  them with our swords?” 
One of his disciples drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest  to kill him, but only cut off his right ear. 
But Jesus said, “Do not  do any more of that!” He touched the  servant’s ear and healed him. 
Then Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the Temple guards, and the  Jewish elders who had come to  seize him, “◄It is ridiculous that you have come  here with swords and clubs to capture MTY me, as  if I were a bandit!/Why have you come here with swords and clubs to capture MTY me, as if I were a bandit?► RHQ Day after day  I was with you in the Temple  courtyard,  and you did not seize me! But this is the time MTY when  God is allowing you  to do what you want. It is also the time MTY when God is allowing  Satan, who rules MTY  in the darkness,  to do what he wants.” 
They seized  Jesus and led him away. They brought him to the high priest’s house. Peter followed  them at a distance. 
They kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together. Peter sat among them. 
As the light  from the fire shone  on his face, a female servant saw him and looked intently at him. She said, “This man was also with  the man whom they have arrested!” 
But Peter denied it, saying, “Woman, I do not know him!” 
A little later someone else saw Peter and said, “You (sg) also are one of those who  were with the man  they arrested!” But Peter said, “Man, I am not  one of them!” 
About an hour later someone else said emphatically  about Peter, “ The way that this man  speaks shows that he is from Galilee  district. Certainly this man was also with the man whom  they arrested, who is from Galilee!” 
But Peter said, “Man, I do not know what you (sg) are talking about!” Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed. 
The Lord  Jesus turned around and looked right at Peter. Then Peter remembered what the Lord had said to him, “This night, before the rooster crows, you (sg) will deny three times  that you know me.” 
And Peter went out  of the courtyard and cried very sorrowfully. 
The men who were guarding Jesus made fun of him and beat him. 
They put a blindfold on him and  beat him again. Then they said to him, “ Because you(sg) say IRO that you are a prophet,  prove it by telling us who it was that struck you!” 
They said many other evil things about him, insulting him. 
At dawn  the next morning, many of the  Jewish leaders gathered together. The group included the chief priests and the men who taught the  Jewish laws. They took Jesus to the Jewish Council. There the men of the Council said to him, 
“If you (sg) are the Messiah, tell us!” But he replied, “If I tell you that, you will not believe me. 
If I ask you  what you think about the Messiah, you will not answer me. 
But some day you will see  me, the one who came from heaven, sitting next to almighty God and ruling MTY!” 
Then they all said, “If that is so, are  you(sg) saying that you are ◄the Son of God/the Man who is also God►?” He said to them, “ Yes, it is just like you say MTY.” 
Then they said  to each other, “◄We (inc) certainly do not need anyone else to testify  against him!/Why should we ask for any more people to testify  against him?► RHQ” We ourselves have heard him say MTY  that he is equal with God!