Lukas 7:27

7:27 This is the one about whom it is written, ‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, ¹  who will prepare your way before you.’ ² 

Lukas 22:37

22:37 For I tell you that this scripture must be ³  fulfilled in me, ‘And he was counted with the transgressors.’ ⁴  For what is written about me is being fulfilled.” ⁵ 

[7:27]  ¹ tn Grk “before your face” (an idiom).

[7:27]  ² sn The quotation is primarily from Mal 3:1 with pronouns from Exod 23:20. Here is the forerunner who points the way to the arrival of God’s salvation. His job is to prepare and guide the people, as the cloud did for Israel in the desert.

[22:37]  ³ sn This scripture must be fulfilled in me. The statement again reflects the divine necessity of God’s plan. See 4:43-44.

[22:37]  ⁴ tn Or “with the lawless.”

[22:37]  sn This is a quotation from Isa 53:12. It highlights a theme of Luke 22-23. Though completely innocent, Jesus dies as if he were a criminal.

[22:37]  ⁵ tn Grk “is having its fulfillment.”