Luke 22:12-46

¹²He will show you a large room that is on the upper floor of the house. It will be all set up for a meal. Prepare the meal for us there.”

¹³So the two disciples went into the city. They found everything to be just like Jesus had told them. So they prepared the meal for the Passover celebration there.

¹⁴When it was time MTY to eat the Passover meal, Jesus came and sat down with the twelve apostles.

¹⁵He said to them, “I have greatly desired to eat this Passover meal with you before I suffer and die.

¹⁶I want you to know that I will not eat the Passover meal again until all those whose lives God rules completely realize what it represents.”

¹⁷Then he took a cup of wine and thanked God for it. Then he said, “Take this, and each of you drink some of it.

¹⁸I want you to know that from now on I will not drink wine until God makes me king.”

¹⁹Then he took some bread and thanked God for it. He broke it into pieces and gave it to them to eat. He said, “This bread represents my body, which I am about to sacrifice for you. Keep on eating bread this way regularly to remember what I have done for you.”

²⁰Similarly, after they had eaten the meal, he took another cup of wine. He said, “ The wine in MTY this cup represents my blood, which will soon flow from my body when I die. With this blood I will sign the new agreement that God is making with you.

²¹But note that the one SYN who will enable my enemies to seize me is eating right here with me!

²²It is certain that I, the one who came from heaven, will die, because that is what God has planned. But there will be terrible punishment for the man who will ◄betray me/enable my enemies to seize me►!”

²³Then they began to ask one another, “Which of us would do such a thing?”

²⁴The apostles began to argue among themselves, saying, “Which one of us will be the greatest when Jesus becomes king?”

²⁵So Jesus said to them, “The kings of the non-Jews enjoy showing that they are powerful. Yet they give themselves the title, ‘ones who help the people.’

²⁶But you should not be like them! Instead, those who want God to consider them the greatest should act as though they were the youngest, since the youngest are expected to serve the older ones. Whoever is a leader should be one who serves the others.

²⁷Keep in mind who is the most important one RHQ. It is certainly the one who just sits at the table, not RHQ those who serve the meal. But I, your leader, have been an example for you by serving you while I have been among you.

²⁸You are the ones who have stayed with me during all my troubles.

²⁹So now, just like my Father has appointed me to rule as a king, I am appointing you

³⁰so that you can sit and eat and rule MET with me when I become king. You will sit on thrones to judge the people of the twelve tribes of Israel.”

³¹“Simon, Simon, listen! Satan has asked God to let him test you, and God has permitted him to do it. Satan wants to cause you to suffer distress (OR, distress you) so that you will not believe/trust in me anymore/longer. He wants to shake you, just like a man shakes wheat in a sieve to sift it MET.

³²But I have prayed for you, Simon, that you will not completely stop believing in me. So when you (sg) restore your relationship with me, help your fellow apostles to trust in me more!”

³³Peter said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you (sg) if they put you in prison, or even to die with you!”

³⁴Jesus replied, “Peter, I want you (sg) to know that tonight, before the rooster crows, you will say three times that you do not know me!”

³⁵Then Jesus asked all of them, “After I sent you out to other villages, and you went without taking any money or a traveling bag or extra sandals, you did not lack anything, did you?” They replied, “ That's right, we(exc) did not lack anything.”

³⁶Then, to show them that now many people would oppose them, (OR, to show them that they needed to be prepared to protect themselves,) he said to them, “Now things will be different. So whoever among you has some money should take it with him. Likewise, he should take a carrying bag. Whoever does not have a sword should sell his coat and buy a sword.

³⁷Because, I now tell you, something must happen to me to fulfill these words that a prophet wrote: ‘He was treated {They treated him} as though he were a criminal.’ Do not forget that everything that is {that they have} written about me in the Scriptures must be fulfilled.”

³⁸One of the disciples said, “Lord, look! We (exc) have two swords!” Realizing that they did not understand the meaning of what he said, he replied to them, “That is enough talk about swords”!

³⁹As Jesus left the city, he went, as he usually did, to Olive Tree Hill. His disciples went with him.

⁴⁰When he came to the place where he often spent the night, he said to them, “Pray that God will help you whenever something tempts you.”

⁴¹Then he went from them a distance of about thirty meters/yards. (OR, as far as someone can throw a stone.) He knelt and prayed,

⁴²“ My Father, if you are willing to do it, force me to have to undergo these terrible things that are about to happen to me MTY. But do not do what I want. Instead, do what you want.”

⁴³Then an angel from heaven appeared to Jesus and caused him to become stronger.

⁴⁴He was greatly distressed. So he prayed more earnestly. His sweat fell down on the ground as though it was large drops of blood.

⁴⁵When he got up from praying, he returned to his disciples. He found that they were sleeping. They were exhausted because they were very sorrowful.

⁴⁶He woke them and said to them, “◄I am disappointed that you are sleeping!/Why are you sleeping?► RHQ Get up! Pray that God will help you whenever you are tempted {when something like this tempts you}!”