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; and the Arrest of Jesus and his trial before the Sanhedrin. The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition generally considers that Luke the Evangelist composed this Gospel as well as the Acts of the Apostles. This chapter initiates this gospel's passion narrative, which continues into chapter 23: if the apocalyptic discourse in Luke 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".

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 number of verses.

Luke 22:1 6 (NKJV) describes the chief priests and scribes' plot to kill Jesus in collaboration with Judas Iscariot. This scene is also depicted in Mark 14:1–2, 10–11 and Matthew 26:1 5, 14–16. Henry Alford notes that Matthew's account is the more complete and refers to Luke's account as "a mere compendium of what took place". 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.

Now the Festival of Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was approaching. This little explanation, "called the Passover", "shows most clearly that St Luke is writing mainly for Gentiles".

Luke 22:14 38 (NKJV) has been described as "Jesus' farewell address", modeled after other farewell addresses in the Greco Roman and biblical traditions.

When the hour had come, He sat down, and the twelve apostles with Him. The word δώδεκα (dōdeka, meaning "twelve") does not appear in some ancient manuscripts, and some critical editors omit it. Protestant divine Heinrich Meyer suggests "it was written in the margin in agreement with the parallels", before being adopted into some texts.

Then an angel appeared to Him from heaven, strengthening Him. And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground. The authenticity of Luke 22:43 44 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.

When He rose up from prayer, and had come to His disciples, He found them sleeping from sorrow. Luke adds "from sorrow", words which do not appear in the accounts of Matthew or Mark.

50 And one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear. And Jesus answered and said, Suffer ye thus far. And he touched his ear, and healed him. Luke, like John, specifically notes that it was the servant's right ear which was removed. Similarly, J. B. Phillips translates as:
"You are right; I am", Jesus told them. 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." 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.