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Reflection: Luke 22: 1 - 34
As Jesus eats the Passover meal with His disciples, they are a very human group of people. They are suspicious of each other and competitive, wanting to know who among them is the greatest. Jesus is aware that he will be betrayed by one of them and that Peter will deny him three times before morning.
The text tells us that Satan has been active, too. He has entered into Judas Iscariot and is doing his best to try to cause discord among the twelve (sifting them like wheat, presumably to separate them from each other).
But Jesus continues to teach and lead the disciples as he has always done. He is both servant and leader.
He confers on the disciples a kingdom, just as his Father conferred a kingdom on Him. Often in His ministry, Jesus spoke about the kingdom as a future, end times event. But on a few occasions, he told the people the kingdom was already among them.
We see a very Jewish Jesus here at the Passover meal. The disciples are not like the Gentiles, he tells them. In the kingdom, the disciples will sit on thrones to judge the tribes of Israel.
As Jesus eats the Passover meal with His disciples, they are a very human group of people. They are suspicious of each other and competitive, wanting to know who among them is the greatest. Jesus is aware that he will be betrayed by one of them and that Peter will deny him three times before morning.
The text tells us that Satan has been active, too. He has entered into Judas Iscariot and is doing his best to try to cause discord among the twelve (sifting them like wheat, presumably to separate them from each other).
But Jesus continues to teach and lead the disciples as he has always done. He is both servant and leader.
He confers on the disciples a kingdom, just as his Father conferred a kingdom on Him. Often in His ministry, Jesus spoke about the kingdom as a future, end times event. But on a few occasions, he told the people the kingdom was already among them.
We see a very Jewish Jesus here at the Passover meal. The disciples are not like the Gentiles, he tells them. In the kingdom, the disciples will sit on thrones to judge the tribes of Israel.