Luke 22:65-71

22:65 They also said many other things against him, reviling ¹  him.

22:66 When day came, the council of the elders of the people gathered together, both the chief priests and the experts in the law. ²  Then ³  they led Jesus ⁴  away to their council ⁵  22:67 and said, “If ⁶  you are the Christ, ⁷  tell us.” But he said to them, “If ⁸  I tell you, you will not ⁹  believe, 22:68 and if ¹⁰  I ask you, you will not ¹¹  answer. 22:69 But from now on ¹²  the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand ¹³  of the power ¹⁴  of God.” 22:70 So ¹⁵  they all said, “Are you the Son of God, ¹⁶  then?” He answered ¹⁷  them, “You say ¹⁸  that I am.” 22:71 Then ¹⁹  they said, “Why do we need further testimony? We have heard it ourselves ²⁰  from his own lips!” ²¹ 

[22:65]  ¹ tn Or “insulting.” Luke uses a strong word here; it means “to revile, to defame, to blaspheme” (L&N 33.400).

[22:66]  ² tn Or “and the scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 5:21.

[22:66]  ³ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[22:66]  ⁴ tn Grk “him”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[22:66]  ⁵ sn Their council is probably a reference to the Jewish Sanhedrin, the council of seventy leaders.

[22:67]  ³ tn This is a first class condition in the Greek text.

[22:67]  ⁴ tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”

[22:67]  ⁵ tn This is a third class condition in the Greek text. Jesus had this experience already in 20:1-8.

[22:67]  ⁶ tn The negation in the Greek text is the strongest possible (οὐ μή, ou mh).

[22:68]  ⁴ tn This is also a third class condition in the Greek text.

[22:68]  ⁵ tn The negation in the Greek text is the strongest possible (οὐ μή, ou mh).

[22:69]  ⁵ sn From now on. Jesus’ authority was taken up from this moment on. Ironically he is now the ultimate judge, who is himself being judged.

[22:69]  ⁶ sn Seated at the right hand is an allusion to Ps 110:1 (“Sit at my right hand…”) and is a claim that Jesus shares authority with God in heaven. Those present may have thought they were his judges, but, in fact, the reverse was true.

[22:69]  ⁷ sn The expression the right hand of the power of God is a circumlocution for referring to God. Such indirect references to God were common in 1st century Judaism out of reverence for the divine name.

[22:70]  ⁶ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of Jesus’ pronouncement.

[22:70]  ⁷ sn The members of the council understood the force of the claim and asked Jesus about another title, Son of God.

[22:70]  ⁸ tn Grk “He said to them.”

[22:70]  ⁹ sn Jesus’ reply, “You say that I am,” was not a denial, but a way of giving a qualified positive response: “You have said it, but I do not quite mean what you think.”

[22:71]  ⁷ tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[22:71]  ⁸ sn We have heard it ourselves. The Sanhedrin regarded the answer as convicting Jesus. They saw it as blasphemous to claim such intimacy and shared authority with God, a claim so serious and convicting that no further testimony was needed.

[22:71]  ⁹ tn Grk “from his own mouth” (an idiom).