diff --git a/content/bible_journal/luke_22:1-13.md b/content/bible_journal/luke_22:1-13.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1df5a8e --- /dev/null +++ b/content/bible_journal/luke_22:1-13.md @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ ++++ +title = "Luke 22:1–13" +date = "2023-02-03" ++++ + +### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Lk22.1-13) + +Now the stage is set for the last 24 hours before Jesus is killed. Passover +draws close and the chief priests try to find some way to put Jesus to death +that wouldn't cause them backlash from the people, which would disturb the +governing Romans. It turns out that the only way they could get to Jesus is by +having one of His inner circle betray Him. Judas Iscariot, under the control of +Satan, approaches the chief priests and agrees to betray Jesus to them when He +is away from any crowds. Because Jesus has established the pattern of leaving +the city for the night, Judas knows what part of the Mount of Olives they will +be in. + +What Judas doesn't know is where Jesus will celebrate the Passover. Jesus gives +instructions to Peter and John to go make preparations, but they have to ask +where it will be. The directions Jesus gives them are strange. First, He says a +man with a water jar will meet them. In this culture, women carried the water +jars from the wells to the houses, while men carried water skins for their +personal use. This man may have been very young, thirteen years old perhaps, or +there were just no women at his house to do the work. (There is some +circumstantial evidence that this man is Mark, who went on a missionary journey +with Paul and wrote down the Gospel of Mark under Peter's dictation.) Peter and +John are to follow this man to a house, where they are to ask for the guest +room for the Teacher and His disciples. + +This must have been a pretty big house. The guest room was able to have at +least thirteen men reclining at the table. Providentially (which is just a +fancy word for God setting things up without us seeing it), all the furnishings +for a Passover meal were there already. It sounds like all Peter and John had +to do was get the food ready. + +* * * + +Nothing escapes Your notice and every detail is accounted for in Your plan.