An argument came up. They must have argued more than once about who was the greatest. Jesus scolded their attitude by washing their feet (see John 13:2-12). But this is not the way it is with you. He is greatest who serves the world best. The same agreement with you. A spiritual Kingdom, not a political power. See note on Matthew 19:28.
Verse Luke 22:24. _THERE WAS ALSO A STRIFE AMONG THEM_] There are _two_ different instances of this sort of _contention_ or _strife_ mentioned by the evangelists, each of which was accompanied with v...
A STRIFE - A contention or debate. WHICH OF THEM SHOULD BE THE GREATEST - The apostles, in common with the Jews generally, had supposed that the Messiah would come as a temporal prince, and in the man...
VI. HIS REJECTION, SUFFERING AND DEATH -- CHAPTER 22-23 CHAPTER 22 _ 1. The Betrayer. (Luke 22:1 .)_ 2. Preparation for the Passover. (Luke 22:7 .) 3. The Last Passover. (Luke 22:14 .) 4. The Lord...
THE CHRISTIAN STANDARD OF GREATNESS (Mark 10:42 *, Matthew 20:25 *, Matthew 19:28 *. _Cf._ also Luke 9:46). Lk. here goes back to a discussion
Strife arose amongst them about which was to be considered greatest. Jesus said to them, "The kings of the gentiles exercise lordship over them and those who have authority over them claim the title o...
AND SATAN ENTERED INTO JUDAS (Luke 22:1-6)...
THERE WAS. there happened. ALSO. STRIFE. a strife also. A STRIFE. a love of dispute. Greek _philoneikia._ Occurs only here. AMONG. Greek. _en.App-104._ GREATEST. greater....
_And there was also a strife Philoneikia,_-an ambitious contention," occurs here only. It is probable that this dispute arose while they were taking their places at the couches (_triclinia_), and may...
ΦΙΛΟΝΕΙΚΊΑ. ‘An ambitious contention,’ occurs here only. It is probable that this dispute arose while they were taking their places at the couches (τρικλίνια), and may possibly have been occasioned by...
THE LAST SUPPER...
Ver 24. And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest. 25. And he said to them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise a...
_JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES -- LUKE 22:23-46:_ The disciples had some interesting discussions about who would ever do such a thing as to betray Jesus. They also discussed who would be greatest in the kin...
ΈΓΈΝΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.), см._ Luke 22:14. ΚΑΊ даже, также, ΦΙΛΟΝΕΙΚΊΑ да,5808) спор; _букв._ любовь к борьбе, ссорам, готовность или желание спорить или ссориться (Arndt; LN, 1:439). ΔΟΚΕΊ _...
AND THERE WAS— _Now,_ &c....
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Communion (Luke 22:1-30) 22 Now the feast of Unleavened Bread drew near, which is called the Passover.2And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to put him...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Last Passover Feast Scripture_ Luke 22:7-38 And the day of unleavened bread came, on which the passover must be sacrificed. 8 And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and make...
And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest. AND THERE WAS (RATHER, HERE, 'THERE HAD BEEN') A STRIFE AMONG THEM, WHICH OF THEM SHOULD BE ACCOUNTED THE GRE...
19-20 Compare Mat_26:26-28; Mar_14:22-24; 1Co_11:23-26. 21-23 Compare Mat_26:21-25; Mar_14:18-21; Joh_13:18-30; Psa_41:9. 23 How sad it is to see the self-centered apostles, whose hearts should have...
22:24 greatest. (c-18) As ch. 9.46....
TREASON OF JUDAS. THE LAST SUPPER. THE AGONY IN THE GARDEN. ARREST OF JESUS. THE JEWISH TRIAL 1-6. Conspiracy of the chief priests. Treachery of Judas (Matthew 26:1; Matthew 26:14; Mark 14:1;...
A CONTENTION WHICH SHOULD BE THE GREATEST (peculiar to Lk). This contention is probably to be placed at the very beginning of the supper, before the feet-washing: see on John 13:1. Our Lord had previo...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 22 THE PLOT TO KILL JESUS 22:1-6 V1 The time was near for the *feast of *Unleavened Bread, or *Passover. V2 The chief priests and teachers of the law...
AND THERE WAS ALSO A STRIFE AMONG THEM. — The incident that follows is peculiar to St. Luke. The noun which he uses for “strife” does not occur elsewhere in the New Testament, but the corresponding ad...
CHAPTER 24 THE WATCH IN GETHSEMANE. HITHERTO the life of Jesus has been comparatively free from sorrow and from pain. With the exception of the narrow strip of wilderness which fell between the Bapti...
_Strife among the disciples_. _Cf._ on chap. Luke 9:46....
φιλονεικία, a contention, here only in N.T. The juxtaposition of this strife among the eleven with the announcement of the traitor gives to it by comparison the aspect of a pardonable infirmity in oth...
DISCIPLES WHO GRIEVE THEIR LORD Luke 22:24-34 It is probable that this dispute about priority took place on their entering the supper room. It could hardly have taken place after the tender scene of...
Here we have the record of final things before the Cross. The priests and the devil are seen in coalition. As the end approached, the Master is seen with the shadow of the Cross on Him, desiring to e...
(8) And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest. (8) The pastors are not called to rule but to serve....
OFFICIAL PROMOTION OF THE TWELVE Luke 22:24-30. _“And there was contention among them as to which one of them seems to be the greater.”_ Here we have an incontestable illustration rendering conspicuou...
II. _The Last Supper: Luke 22:7-38_. We find ourselves here face to face with a difficulty which, since the second century of the Church, has arrested the attentive readers of the Scriptures. As it wa...
3. _The Conversations after the Supper: Luke 22:24-38_. The conversations which follow refer: 1 _st._ To a dispute which arises at this moment between the apostles (Luke 22:24-30); 2 _d._ To the dange...
"Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed. (8) And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat. (9) And they said unto him, Where wil...
The last chapter gave in the judgment of present things, another world and eternal things in good and evil, the Lord's instruction for the disciples after the dealings of grace in Luke 15:1-32, and th...
_THE TRUE WAY TO GREATNESS_ ‘And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest.’ Luke 22:24 The disciples had not yet clearly understood the true design of Chri...
In chapter 22, Luke commence the details of the end of our Lord's life. The chief priests, fearing the people, seek how they may kill Him. Judas, under the influence of Satan, offers himself as an ins...
AND THERE WAS ALSO A STRIFE AMONG THEM,.... The Persic version reads, "at a certain time there was a contention among the apostles"; and some think, that this refers to the time when the mother of Zeb...
And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest. Ver. 24. _There was also a strife_] This was so much the worse in them, because immediately after the sacrament...
_And there was also a strife among them_, &c. Of the kind of contentions here spoken of there are two instances recorded by the evangelists, evidently different from each other, and each attended with...
THE GREATEST; the most honorable-have the highest offices in that earthly kingdom which, notwithstanding all his instruction, they still thought he was about to establish. It seems to have been in con...
A LESSON ON HUMILITY. Luke 22:24 The dispute about rank:...
AND THERE WAS ALSO A STRIFE AMONG THEM WHICH OF THEM SHOULD BE ACCOUNTED THE GREATEST....
THE TREACHERY OF JUDAS (vs.1-6) As the Passover feast drew near, the chief priests and Pharisees felt hard pressed to find some way of apprehending and killing this "prophet" who was offending their...
21-38 How unbecoming is the worldly ambition of being the greatest, to the character of a follower of Jesus, who took upon him the form of a servant, and humbled himself to the death of the cross! In...
OLBGrk; Luke only taketh notice of this strife at the time of their being in the guest chamber. Such a strife we read of, MATTHEW 2:1; MATTHEW 18:25,26 MARK 9:33 and in this Gospel,...
Shepherd of Hermas Similitude Eighth And they who gave in their branches green and cracked were always faithful and good, though emulous of each other about the foremost places, and about fame:[25]...
Luke 22:24 Now G1161 was G1096 (G5633) also G2532 dispute G5379 among G1722 them G846 which G5101 them...
CRISIS POINT IS REACHED IN THE GUESTCHAMBER (22:14-38). In this passage we have described what occurred in the Guestchamber. This divides up into five sections. OVERALL ANALYSIS. a Jesus manifests...
JESUS IS CRUCIFIED AND RISES AGAIN (22:1-24:53). We now come to the final Section of Luke which is also in the form of a chiasmus (see analysis below). Central in this final chiasmus is the crucifixio...
JESUS ADVANCES TO THE GUEST-CHAMBER (22:7-38). It is no coincidence that near the beginning of Luke's Gospel there was no room for Jesus in the ‘kataluma' (Luke 2:7 - place to stay, guestchamber), but...
‘And when the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord, as it is written in the law of the Lord, “Every mal...
‘And there arose also a contention among them, which of them was accounted to be greatest.' A little consideration will demonstrate how easily their questioning of themselves about their frailty coul...
THE HUMILITY WHICH IS TO DISTINGUISH THOSE WHO ARE HIS (22:24-30). Having established the basis for the future by means of the new significance of the bread and wine, and having warned that He was abo...
Luke 22:24. AND THERE AROSE ALSO A CONTENTION AMONG THEM. More than a discussion, a contention, a quarrel. Hence the improbability of its occurring after the Lord's Supper. Some suppose that it was oc...
Luke presents a number of new details: Luke 22:7-13 narrate the preparation with greatest fulness, mentioning the names of the two disciples who were sent for this purpose; the affecting words (Luke 2...
Luke 22:24-30. THE CONTENTION. Peculiar to Luke, although something similar is recorded by Matthew (Matthew 18:1, etc.; Matthew 20:20, etc.) and Mark. Luke cannot refer to one of these previous occurr...
CONTENTION (φιλονεικια). An old word from φιλονεικος, fond of strife, eagerness to contend. Only here in the N.T.GREATEST (μειζων). Common use of the comparative as superlative....
Luke 22:14 _And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him. And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat the passover with you before I suffer: for I say unto yo...
Luke 22:1. _Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover. And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people._ Dastardly fear of...
Luke 22:7. Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed. And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat. And they said unto him, Where w...
Luke 22:7. Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed. And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat. And they said unto him, Where w...
Luke 22:14. _And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him. And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer: for I say unto...
CONTENTS: Judas covenants to betray Jesus. Last passover. Lord's supper instituted. Peter's denial predicted. Jesus' arrest. Peter's denial. CHARACTERS: Jesus, priests, scribes, disciples, Judas, Pet...
Luke 22:1. _The feast of unleavened bread drew nigh._ See Matthew 26:2. Luke 22:3. _Then Satan entered into Judas,_ by divine permission, his reigning sin of covetousness having proved his destruction...
_He that is greatest among you let him be as the younger_ HOW TO BE THE GREATEST IN CHRIST’S KINGDOM I. THERE IS A NECESSARY AND NATURAL DESIRE IN MAN FOR SUPERIORITY. 1. It is taken for granted th...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 22:24 GREATEST. Compare Mark 8:34. ⇐...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 22:1 The Suffering and Death of Jesus. As Jesus’ death draws near, the scene shifts from the temple area to the city of Jerusalem. The emphasis shifts from Jesus’ teachings to events...
CHAPTER 22 VER.6. _And he sought opportunity to betray Him unto them._ Judas sold Jesus Christ on the fourth day of the week, the day of Mercury; on the following day, or the day of Jupiter, he delive...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 22:21. HIM THAT BETRAYETH.—If the order of events be here given, it is clear that Judas partook of the last supper. Luke 22:22. DETERMINED.—Fixed by the counsel of God (cf. Acts...
EXPOSITION LUKE 23:1 THE LAST PASSOVER. LUKE 22:1, LUKE 22:2 Short explanatory introduction.
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...
1 Corinthians 13:4; 1 Peter 5:5; 1 Peter 5:6; James 4:5; James 4:6;...
A strife [φ ι λ ο ν ε ι κ ι α]. Properly, "an eager contention." Only here in New Testament. Greatest. Strictly, greater....
There was also a contention among them — It is highly probable, this was the same dispute which is mentioned by St. Matthew and St. Mark: and consequently, though it is related here, it happened some...
If these words be not placed out of order by St. Luke here, it may seem very strange, that the apostles immediately after receiving the sacrament, should entertain their minds with thoughts of precede...