Luke 22:7-13
Let’s continue to pray for Jim and Marty.
“Notice what you notice.” Who did Jesus send to find the Passover location? Matthew’s Gospel says that …the disciples came to Jesus and asked… <and> …the disciples did as Jesus had directed them. (Matthew 26:17). In Mark we see that He sent two of His disciples… (Mark 14:13). Finally Luke tells us that Jesus sent Peter and John… (v. 8). I wonder at Luke specifically naming Peter and John, but Matthew and Mark keeping silent on the names. Strange…!
Typically I look at three translations each day, the NKJV, the NASB, and the ESV. Yesterday I neglected to look at the NASB. Surprise! In Mark’s Gospel, as the disciples enter the house they are to …say to the owner of the house, ‘The Teacher says, “Where is My guest room in which I may eat the Passover with My disciples?”’ (Mark 14:14). “MY guest room…” Intriguing! That simple pronoun, “My” would have Jesus in a very close relationship with the owner of the house! So now I wonder if Jesus had made prior plans with the owner of the house to celebrate the Passover meal at his house, in his guest room, a room in which Jesus had already been a guest on previous visits to Jerusalem? There’s just so much that we don’t know, especially about Jesus’ time in Jerusalem.
Slava Bohu!
Fred, my reflections on this section have all been questions too. Why Peter and John? Whose house? Etc. I am visualizing P&J going to buy a lamb, killing and roasting it, off to the vintner for wine, the market for herbs. They must have been exhausted by the time they got to Gethsemane.