{"id":25888,"date":"2022-09-24T11:21:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T16:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-luke-2242\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T11:21:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T16:21:00","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-luke-2242","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-luke-2242\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Luke 22:42"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> <strong> 42.<\/strong> <em> if thou be willing<\/em> ] The principle of His whole life of suffering obedience, <span class='bible'>Joh 5:30<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Joh 6:38<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><em> this cup<\/em> ] <span class='bible'>Mat 20:22<\/span>; comp. <span class='bible'>Eze 22:31<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Psa 75:8<\/span>. This prayer is an instance of the &ldquo;strong crying and tears,&rdquo; amid which He &ldquo;learned obedience by the things which He suffered,&rdquo; <span class='bible'>Heb 5:7-8<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P> We have a larger account given us of our Saviours prayer, See Poole on &#8220;<span class='bible'>Mat 26:39<\/span>&#8220;, and following verses to <span class='bible'>Mat 26:46<\/span>. See Poole on &#8220;<span class='bible'>Mar 14:35<\/span>&#8220;, and following verses to <span class='bible'>Mar 14:42<\/span>. <\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Saying, Father, if thou be willing<\/strong>,&#8230;. If it be consistent with thy will of saving sinners, and which thou hast declared to me, and I have undertook to perform: the other evangelists say, &#8220;if it be possible&#8221;; <span class='bible'>[See comments on Mt 26:39]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>remove this cup from me<\/strong>; meaning, either his present sorrows and distress, or his approaching sufferings and death, which he had in view, or both:<\/p>\n<p><strong>nevertheless not my will<\/strong>; as man, for Christ had an human will distinct from, though not contrary to his divine will:<\/p>\n<p><strong>but thine be done<\/strong>; which Christ undertook, and came into this world to do; and it was his meat and drink to do it, and was the same with his own will, as the Son of God; <span class='bible'>[See comments on Mt 26:39]<\/span>, and<\/p>\n<p> <span class='bible'>[See comments on Mt 26:42]<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P> <B>If thou be willing <\/B> (<span class='_800000'><SPAN LANG=\"el-GR\"> <\/SPAN><\/span>). This condition is in the first petition at the start.<\/P> <P><B>Be done <\/B> (<span class='_800000'><SPAN LANG=\"el-GR\"><\/SPAN><\/span>). Present middle imperative, keep on being done, the Father&#8217;s will. <\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Robertson&#8217;s Word Pictures in the New Testament<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> 1) <strong>&#8220;Saying, Father, if thou be willing,&#8221; <\/strong>(legon pater ei boulei) &#8220;Saying repeatedly, Father, if you will, &#8221; or if you are willing, of your choice, but not without your will. For He came not to do His own will, but the will of the Father who sent Him. His will was subservient to His Father&#8217;s will, as ours should be, <span class='bible'>Joh 6:38<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Eph 5:17<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Rom 12:2<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>2) <strong>&#8220;Remove this cup from me:&#8221; <\/strong>(parenegke touto to poterion ap emou) &#8220;Take away this cup from me,&#8221; this cup of sorrow, suffering, <span class='bible'>Mat 26:39<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Mar 14:36<\/span> a; <span class='bible'>Psa 75:8<\/span>; as pictured <span class='bible'>Gen 22:6-8<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Heb 5:7<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>3) <strong>&#8220;Nevertheless not my will, but thine be done.&#8221; <\/strong>(plen me to thelema mou alla to son ginestho) &#8220;However, let not my priority will but yours be done,&#8221; occur or come to be, <span class='bible'>Psa 40:8<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Joh 4:34<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Joh 6:33<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Heb 10:7<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Mar 14:36<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>(42) <strong>Not my will, but thine, be done.<\/strong>See Notes on <span class='bible'>Mat. 26:39<\/span>. Here there is a more distinct echo of the prayer which He had taught His disciples. He, too, could say, Lead us not into temptation, but that prayer was subject, now explicitly, as at all times implicitly, to the antecedent condition that it was in harmony with Thy will be done.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Ellicott&#8217;s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> &lsquo;Saying, &ldquo;Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me, nevertheless what I want, but your will be done.&rdquo; &rsquo;<\/p>\n<p> Jesus then addressed His &lsquo;Father&rsquo;. Writing to Gentiles Luke does not use the Aramaic &lsquo;Abba&rsquo; used by Mark, but only the Greek &lsquo;pater&rsquo;. But note that He begins by subjecting His prayer to the will of the Father. The fact that He is speaking to His Father does not lessen the importance of His Father&rsquo;s will. It rather enhances it. We too are permitted to approach Him as &lsquo;Our Father in Heaven. But with us also this does not lessen our responsibility to do His will. It rather underlines it.<\/p>\n<p>&lsquo;Remove this cup from me.&rsquo; Here Jesus had in mind the cup of the Lord&rsquo;s &lsquo;anger&rsquo;, the cup of the righteous wrath (or antipathy) of God against sin, the cup of which He had to drink to the full. Others had drunk of such a cup before, but in the past such a cup had always been taken out of the hand of His people by God, once He felt that they had drunk enough (<span class='bible'>Isa 51:22<\/span>). And Jesus clearly hoped that this might also be possible for Him. But while the awfulness of what lay before Him made Him shrink from it, He immediately made His request conditional on the Father&rsquo;s will. For while He shrank from what was in the cup, He would not shrink from the will of God, even if that involved, as it did, the drinking of that cup to the full.<\/p>\n<p> This prayer reminds us again that Jesus had come as one who was truly human, for His words make clear the battle raging within Him. As One Who was holy, and uniquely separated to, and aware of, His Father, and to Whom sin was abhorrent, and to Whom death was a contradiction to all that He was as the Lord of life, He saw before Him the cup of suffering, and forsakenness, and death and His whole being cried out against it. For it not only contained within it for Him an intensity of suffering such as no other man could ever have known, (for they have been involved in sin and death all their lives), but also the personal experience of the antipathy of God (wrath) against sin. This last especially must have torn at the very depths of His righteous and obedient heart.<\/p>\n<p> For these ideas as connected with drinking from a cup see <span class='bible'>Psa 11:6<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Psa 75:8<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Isa 51:17<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jer 25:15<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jer 25:17<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Jer 25:28<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Lam 4:21<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Eze 23:31-34<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Hab 2:16<\/span> see also <span class='bible'>Rev 14:10<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Rev 16:19<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Rev 18:6<\/span>. <span class='bible'>Psa 75:8<\/span> expresses it most vividly, &lsquo;For in the hand of YHWH there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture, and He pours out of the same.&rsquo; It was the mixture of His terrible judgments on sin, &lsquo;the wine of the wrath of God poured unmixed into the cup of His anger&rsquo; (<span class='bible'>Rev 14:10<\/span>) and Jesus would have to drink it to the last drop. A similar cup had been the portion of Jerusalem in the midst of the passages about the coming Servant of the Lord. It was a cup which they would truly drink again around thirty or so years later (<span class='bible'>Isa 51:17<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p> If we support here the shorter text, and the probability is that we should, while not necessarily doubting that the longer text is based on a valid tradition (or even on a Lucan revision), then this prayer is central in the chiasmus. This is what the agony on the Mount of Olives was all about. We can compare here the words in <span class='bible'>Heb 5:7<\/span>, &lsquo;Who in the days of His flesh offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to Him Who was able to save Him out of death, and was heard for His godly fear&rsquo;. He shrank from the cup of the antipathy of God against sin, but in the end was willing to drink it to the full. No wonder that He would later feel forsaken. But how then was His prayer heard? By the sustenance given to Him in His manhood to carry it through. For in His godly fear He was strengthened and sustained.<\/p>\n<p>&lsquo;Nevertheless not my will, but yours be done.&rsquo; Even in His extremity Jesus was concerned more than all else in the will of the Father being done. Jesus was here perfectly exemplifying the prayer that He had taught to His disciples (<span class='bible'>Mat 6:10<\/span>; see also <span class='bible'>Mat 26:42<\/span>). Whatever it involved it was God&rsquo;s will that was to be the final arbiter. And it was through this obedience that He would prove Himself to be a sufficient sacrifice for the sins of the world (<span class='bible'>Heb 10:5-10<\/span>). He went, not under the compulsion of another, not even of His Father, but as a willing and voluntary sacrifice. The question had been asked long before, &ldquo;But where is the lamb for a burnt offering?&rdquo; And the answer had been given, &ldquo;God will Himself provide the lamb for a burnt offering&rdquo; (see <span class='bible'>Gen 22:7-8<\/span>). And now here He was as the Father&rsquo;s provision.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong><em><span class='bible'>Luk 22:42<\/span><\/em><\/strong><strong>. <\/strong><strong><em>If thou be willing, remove this cup, <\/em><\/strong><strong>&amp;c.<\/strong> <em>Oh that thou wouldst,<\/em>or, <em>that thou wert willing to remove this cup from me! <\/em>&amp;c. Blackwall. Our Lord spoke this, not as desirous to be excused from sufferings and death, but in reference to the terror and severity of the combat in which he was now actually engaged. See on <span class='bible'>Mat 26:39<\/span>. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> 42 Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done. <strong> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Ver. 42. <strong> lf thou be willing<\/strong> ] He was so astonished with the greatness of his present pressures, that he seems for a time to suffer some kind of forgetfulness of his office. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Trapp&#8217;s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> <strong> 42.<\/strong> ] <strong> <\/strong> is not to be <em> rendered<\/em> &lsquo;utinam,&rsquo; but &lsquo; <strong> si<\/strong> ,&rsquo; and the sentence is broken off at <strong> <\/strong> : thus rendering the meaning equivalent to a wish. Some suppose <strong> <\/strong> to be an inf. <em> for an imperative<\/em> , but incorrectly.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Henry Alford&#8217;s Greek Testament<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> <span class='bible'>Luk 22:42<\/span> .  , Father! the keynote, a prayer of faith however dire the distress.   , etc.: with the reading  the sense is simple: if Thou wilt, take away. With  or  we have a sentence unfinished: &ldquo;apodosis suppressed by sorrow&rdquo; (Winer, p. 750), or an infinitive for an imperative (Bengel, etc.). The use of  . in the sense of &ldquo;remove&rdquo; is somewhat unusual. Hesychius gives as synonyms verbs of the opposite meaning  ,  . The   leaves no doubt what is meant. In Lk.&rsquo;s narrative there is only a single act of prayer. The whole account is mitigated as compared with that in Mt. and Mk. Jesus goes to the <em> accustomed<\/em> place, craves no sympathy from the three, kneels, utters a single prayer, then returns to the Twelve. With this picture the statement in <span class='bible'>Luk 22:43-44<\/span> is entirely out of harmony.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Expositors Greek Testament by Robertson<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>if, &amp;c. See App-118. <\/p>\n<p>Thou be willing. -it be Thine intention. Compare App-102. <\/p>\n<p>will = desire. Greek. thelema. Compare App-102. Verses Luk 43:44 are omitted or marked as doubtful by most texts, but the Syriac includes them. See App-94. note. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>42.]  is not to be rendered utinam, but si, and the sentence is broken off at : thus rendering the meaning equivalent to a wish. Some suppose  to be an inf. for an imperative, but incorrectly.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Greek Testament<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Luk 22:42.   , if thou he willing, remove) The Infinitive put for the Imperative is a frequent usage of the Greeks. See note on Rev 10:9.[246] And in this passage, indeed, such an Enallage (or change of mood and tense) expresses the reverential modesty of Jesus towards the Father. But in this passage, if we suppose an aposiopesis of the verb  [and make  the Infin. after , this feeling of reverential modesty will be still more expressively conveyed.<\/p>\n<p>[246] The Infinitive expressing the absolute idea of the verb, irrespective of the particular relations of mood and tense, tends to impart the feeling of majesty to the language when used for the Imperative; especially when God speaks. It was often used archaically for the Imperative, and also for the Imperfect Indicative, in both Latin and Greek.-E. and T.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Gnomon of the New Testament<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>cup <\/p>\n<p>(See Scofield &#8220;Mat 26:39&#8221;). <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Scofield Reference Bible Notes<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Father: Mat 26:42, Mat 26:44, Mar 14:36, Joh 12:27, Joh 12:28 <\/p>\n<p>willing, remove: Gr. willing to remove <\/p>\n<p>cup: Luk 22:17-20, Isa 51:17, Isa 51:22, Jer 25:15, Mat 20:22, Joh 18:11 <\/p>\n<p>not: Psa 40:8, Joh 4:34, Joh 5:30, Joh 6:38, Heb 10:7-10 <\/p>\n<p>Reciprocal: Mat 26:39 &#8211; and prayed Mar 10:38 &#8211; drink of the Act 21:14 &#8211; The will Rom 8:15 &#8211; Abba Gal 1:4 &#8211; according Heb 5:7 &#8211; in that he feared<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Luk 22:42. Father, etc. Godet: Luke, like Mark, gives only the first prayer, and confines himself to indicating the others summarily, while Matthew introduces us more profoundly to the progressive steps in the submission of Jesus.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: A Popular Commentary on the New Testament<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done. 42. if thou be willing ] The principle of His whole life of suffering obedience, Joh 5:30; Joh 6:38. this cup ] Mat 20:22; comp. Eze 22:31; Psa 75:8. 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