Luke 22:39-62 Jesus’ suffering begins — Jesus’ friends desert Him.

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Luke 22:39-62 Jesus’ suffering begins — Jesus’ friends desert Him.

39-46 Gethsemane Garden, Mount of Olives

³⁹And then He went as He normally did, to the Mount of Olives, followed by His disciples. ⁴⁰When He arrived, He said to them,

“Pray that you don’t go entering into temptation”.

⁴¹He moved away about a stones throw, went down on His knees and prayed ⁴²aloud

“Father, if you are willing, take this ordeal away from me. Anyway, not My will but Yours be done”.

⁴³Then an angel arrived from heaven to strengthen Him. ⁴⁴The struggle in the contest was so intense that He prayed more earnestly. He was gushing big drops of blood, which fell to the ground. ⁴⁵After He got up from praying, He went back to the disciples and found that the sorrow had exhausted them. ⁴⁶He said to them,

“Why are you so drowsy? Get up and pray that you don’t enter into a trial”.

47-53 Jesus is arrested.

⁴⁷While He was still speaking, a crowd and Judas, one of the twelve, suddenly arrived and came up to them. He went up to Jesus and kissed Him. ⁴⁸Jesus said to him,

“Judas, are you going to give up the Son of Man, with a kiss?”

⁴⁹When those nearest Him saw what was about to happen, they said,

“Lord, shall we use the sword?”

⁵⁰Then one of them cut off the ear of the slave of the high priest. ⁵¹Then Jesus said,

“Don’t do that”,

and He touched his ear and healed him. ⁵²Then Jesus turned to the chief priests and temple guards and elders and said,

“You look as if you have come to arrest a robber, with your swords and sticks. ⁵³Every day when I was with you in the temple, you didn’t touch me. But your time is the time used by the powers of darkness”.

54-62 Peter Denies Jesus.

⁵⁴Then they took Him away to the high priest’s house and Peter followed at a distance. ⁵⁵After making a fire in the middle of the courtyard they sat down together where Peter joined them. ⁵⁶A maid saw him sitting facing the fire-light, and stretching herself directly at him, pointedly said,

“This one was also with Him”.

⁵⁷Then he disowned Him, saying,

“I don’t know Him, woman.”

⁵⁸After a bit, a different person saw him and said,

“You are one of them”.

And Peter said,

“Man, it wasn’t me”.

⁵⁹After about an hour, yet another said,

“Truthfully, this one was with Him, and he is a Galilean!”

⁶⁰And Peter said,

“Man, I do not know what you are talking about”,

and while he was still speaking the cock crowed instantly.

⁶¹Just then the Lord turned and looked at Peter, who remembered that the Lord had said to him,

“Before the cock crows today, you will deny knowing Me three times”,

⁶²and Peter went out and wept bitterly.

—-Summary

Luke 22:52-53 “You look as if you have come to arrest a robber, with your swords and sticks. ⁵³Every day when I was with you in the temple, you didn’t touch me. But your time is the time used by the powers of darkness”.

Today’s Verse… Who is Jesus?

“Father, if you are willing, take this ordeal away from me. Anyway, not My will but Yours be done”.

Today’s Challenge

Luke 22:40 “Pray that you don’t go entering into temptation”.

Prayer, Praise and Worship

“… He went up on a mountainside by himself to pray.” Matthew 14:23.

Jesus taught His disciples what we call ‘The Lord’s Prayer’; (Luke 11).

Listen here to Albert Malotte’s ‘The Lord’s Prayer’.

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name,

thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever;- Amen.

Prayer suggestions;-

The world. (ie ‘For those in authority.’)
The ‘suffering church.’ https://barnabasfund.org/nz/pray/daily-prayer/#previous-dates
Your own situation. (Suggest ‘needs’ rather than ‘wants’.)

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