Luke 23

Luke 23
Luke 6:4-16 on Papyrus 4, written about AD 150-175.
Book Gospel of Luke
Bible part New Testament
Order in the Bible part 3
Category Gospel

Luke 23 is the twenty-third chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the trial of Jesus Christ before Pontius Pilate, Jesus' meeting with Herod Antipas, and his crucifixion, death and burial.[1] The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this Gospel as well as the Acts of the Apostles.[2]

Text

The Crucifixion (1622) by Simon Vouet; Church of Jesus, Genoa

Structure

The New King James Version organises this chapter as follows (with cross references to parallel sections in the other gospels):

Verse 1

The whole Council (Greek: απαν το πληθος, hapan to plēthos) led Jesus to Pontius Pilate, the provincial governor of Judaea. The New King James Version translates as "the whole multitude of them".

Verse 3

Then Pilate asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”
He answered, “You say so.” (NRSV)[3]

Cross reference: Matthew 27:11; Mark 15:2; John 18:37

Verse 3 in Greek

Textus Receptus/Majority Text:

ὁ δὲ Πιλάτος ἐπηρώτησεν αὐτόν, λέγων, Σὺ εἶ ὁ βασιλεὺς τῶν Ἰουδαίων;
ὁ δὲ ἀποκριθεὶς αὐτῷ ἔφη, Σὺ λέγεις.

Transliteration:

o de pilatos epērōtēsen auton, legōn, su ei o basileus tōn ioudaiōn:
o de apokritheis autō ephē, su legeis.

Verse 3 in Latin

Biblia Sacra Vulgata:

Pilatus autem interrogavit eum dicens tu es rex Iudaeorum
at ille respondens ait tu dicis.

The style of response is the same as in Luke 22:70, where Jesus answers the Sanhedrin's question, "Are you the Son of God?"

Verse 29

Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore and the breasts which never gave suck.[4]

The prophet Hosea spoke in similar language, when recognising that the disobedience of Israel required God's punishment, but calling for some mitigation:

Give them, O Lord —
what will you give?
Give them a miscarrying womb
and dry breasts.[5]

Verse 55

And the women who had come with Him from Galilee followed after, and they observed the tomb and how His body was laid.[6]

According to Luke 24:10, "the women" were "Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the other women with them".[7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Halley, Henry H. Halley's Bible Handbook: an Abbreviated Bible Commentary. 23rd edition. Zondervan Publishing House. 1962.
  2. ↑ Holman Illustrated Bible Handbook. Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee. 2012.
  3. ↑ Luke 23:3
  4. ↑ Luke 23:29
  5. ↑ Hosea 9:14
  6. ↑ Luke 23:55
  7. ↑ Luke 24:10
Preceded by
Luke 22		 Chapters of the Bible
Gospel of Luke		 Succeeded by
Luke 24
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