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title = "Luke 22:47–53"
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date = "2023-02-12"
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### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Lk22.47-53)
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Since Judas knows where Jesus usually spends time on the Mount of Olives, he is
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able to easily lead a group to capture Him. He identifies Jesus to the others
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by greeting Him with a kiss, a common greeting at the time. It seems Jesus
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stops him, but I read the situation as very confused and fast-paced.
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Jesus's disciples figure out what all these armed men are here to do and ask
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Jesus if they should try to fight back. They've got these swords after all.
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Without waiting for the answer, Peter (as we know from other accounts), the
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brash, impulsive one, goes ahead and swings at a bondslave of the high priest.
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This man may have been in charge of the group of guards following Judas, and
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Peter may have recognized him as the leader and so target him first. Or maybe
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he was just the closest person.
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In any case the high priest's slave loses his ear from Peter's strike, so I
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presume Peter was going for the kill. In light of that, I'm really surprised
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things didn't devolve into a _mêlée_. On the other hand, Jesus doesn't want
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that to happen, therefore it doesn't. Instead, Jesus heals the man's ear and
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talks the crowd that has come to arrest Him. He points out that they aren't not
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acting in righteousness, and they know it, because they are operating in
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secret, away from public view.
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* * *
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Let us not react in anger and selfishness, but to listen to Your voice in all
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circumstances.
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