Luke 22:1-13
The chapter which opens with these verses, begins Luke’s account of our Lord’s sufferings and death. No part of the Gospels is so important as this. The death of Christ was the life of the world.–No part of our Lord’s history is so fully given by all the gospel writers as this. Only two of them describe the circumstances of Christ’s birth. All four dwell minutely on Christ’s death. And of all the four, no one supplies us with such full and interesting details as Luke.
We see, firstly, in these verses, that high offices in the church do not preserve the holders of them from great blindness and sin. We read that “the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill” Jesus.