Luke 22:15

Green's Literal Translation

And He said to them, With desire I desired to eat this Passover with you before My suffering.

Parallel Translations

Simplified Cowboy Version
Jesus told them, "I couldn't wait to share this meal with y'all before I suffer the things that are about to take place.

Legacy Standard Bible
And He said to them, "I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And He said to them, "I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer;

Bible in Basic English
And he said, I have had a great desire to keep this Passover with you before I come to my death;

Darby Translation
And he said to them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer.

New King James Version
Then He said to them, "With fervent desire I have desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer;

Christian Standard Bible®
Then He said to them, "I have fervently desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.

World English Bible
He said to them, "I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer,

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And he said to them, With desire have I desired to eat this passover with you, before I suffer.

Weymouth's New Testament
He said to them, "Earnestly have I longed to eat this Passover with you before I suffer;

King James Version (1611)
And he said vnto them, With desire I haue desired to eate this Passeouer with you before I suffer.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and he sayde vnto them: I haue hertely desyred to eate this Easter labe with you before I suffre.

Mace New Testament (1729)
and he said to them, I have ardently desired to eat this passover with you, before I suffer.

Amplified Bible
He said to them, "I have earnestly wanted to eat this Passover with you before I suffer;

American Standard Version
And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:

Revised Standard Version
And he said to them, "I have earnestly desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer;

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And he sayde vnto them: I have inwardly desyred to eate this ester lambe with you before yt I suffre.

Update Bible Version
And he said to them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:

Webster's Bible Translation
And he said to them, I have earnestly desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer.

New Century Version
He said to them, "I wanted very much to eat this Passover meal with you before I suffer.

New English Translation
And he said to them, "I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.

Contemporary English Version
he said to them, "I have very much wanted to eat this Passover meal with you before I suffer.

Complete Jewish Bible
and he said to them, "I have really wanted so much to celebrate this Seder with you before I die!

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then he saide vnto them, I haue earnestly desired to eate this Passeouer with you, before I suffer.

George Lamsa Translation
And he said to them, I have desired with desire to eat this passover with you before I suffer;

Hebrew Names Version
He said to them, "I have earnestly desired to eat this Pesach with you before I suffer,

International Standard Version
He said to them, "I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover meal with you before I suffer.

Etheridge Translation
And he said to them, With desire have I desired to eat this petscha with you before I suffer:

Murdock Translation
And he said to them: I have greatly desired to eat this passover with you, before I suffer.

New Living Translation
Jesus said, "I have been very eager to eat this Passover meal with you before my suffering begins.

New Life Bible
He said to them, "I have wanted very much to eat this special supper with you to remember how the Jews left Egypt. I have wanted to eat this with you before I suffer.

English Revised Version
And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:

Berean Standard Bible
And He said to them, "I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before My suffering.

New Revised Standard
He said to them, "I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And he said unto them - I have greatly desired, to eat, this passover, with you before I suffer;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to them: With desire I have desired to eat this pasch with you, before I suffer.

King James Version
And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:

Lexham English Bible
And he said to them, "I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he sayde vnto them: I haue earnestly desired to eate this Passouer with you, before that I suffer.

Easy-to-Read Version
Jesus said to them, "I wanted very much to eat this Passover meal with you before I die.

English Standard Version
And he said to them, "I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.

New American Standard Bible
And He said to them, "I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer;

Good News Translation
He said to them, "I have wanted so much to eat this Passover meal with you before I suffer!

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he seide to hem, With desier Y haue desirid to ete with you this pask, bifor that Y suffre;

Young's Literal Translation
and he said unto them, `With desire I did desire to eat this passover with you before my suffering,

Contextual Overview

⁷ And the day of the Unleavened Bread came, on which the Passover must be killed. ⁸ And He sent Peter and John, saying, Having gone, prepare for us the Passover, that we may eat. ⁹ And they said to Him, Where do You desire that we prepare? ¹⁰ And He said to them, Behold, you going into the city, you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him into the house where he goes in. ¹¹ And you will say to the housemaster of that house, The Teacher says to you, Where is the guest room where I may eat the Passover with My disciples? ¹² And that one will show you a large upper room which he has spread. Prepare there. ¹³ And having gone, they found as He had told them, and they prepared the Passover. ¹⁴ And when the hour came, He reclined, and the twelve apostles with Him. ¹⁵ And He said to them, With desire I desired to eat this Passover with you before My suffering. ¹⁶ For I say to you that no more, I will not eat of it until when it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God, never!

Bible Verse Review
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With desire I have desired: or, I have heartily desired, Luke 12:50, John 4:34, John 13:1, John 17:1

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 16:2 - sacrifice Matthew 26:2 - know Matthew 26:29 - I will Matthew 26:46 - General 1 Thessalonians 2:17 - endeavoured

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he said unto them,.... The twelve apostles, as they were eating the passover, it being usual to talk and converse much at such a time; :-.

With desire have I desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer; not for the sake of eating; for though he was traduced as a glutton, and did often eat and drink in a free and familiar way, both at the tables of Pharisees, and of publicans and sinners; yet he was not a man given to appetite; witness his fast of forty days and forty nights, and his great negligence of himself, which sometimes obliged his disciples to pray him to eat; see John 4:31. Indeed, according to the Jewish canons, it was not judged proper that a man should eat much on the day before the passover, that he might be hungry, and eat the passover, בתאבון, "with desire" l, or with an appetite. Our Lord may allude to this; but this was not the thing he meant; nor merely does he say this on account of the passover, as it was God's ordinance; though as he was made under the law, and that was in his heart, he had a great regard to it, and a delight in it, which he had shown in his frequent and constant attendance on it from his youth: but though he had kept many passovers, yet of none of them did he say what he does of this, which was his fourth passover from his entrance on his public ministry, and his last: two reasons are suggested in the text why he so greatly desired to eat this passover; the one is, because he should eat it "with" his disciples; an emphasis lies on the phrase, "with you", to whom, and not so much to the passover, and the eating of that, was his desire; as it is to all his people: it was so from everlasting, when he desired them as his spouse and bride; and in time, when he became incarnate, suffered, died, and gave himself for them: his desire is towards them whilst in unregeneracy, that they may be converted; and to them when converted, notwithstanding all their backslidings and revoltings. His desire is to their persons, and the comeliness and beauty of them, which he himself has put upon them; and to their graces, and the exercise of them, with which he is ravished; and to their company and communion with them, which he chooses and delights in: and his desire is towards their being with him to all eternity, and which he delighted in the fore views of from eternity; and is the joy set before him, and which carried him through his sufferings and death; and is the amount and accomplishment of all his prayers and intercession: and the other reason of this his strong desire in the text is, that this was the last passover, and that his sufferings and death were just at hand, and which he longed to have over; not that he desired these sufferings, for the sake of them, which could not be agreeable to, and desirable by his human nature; but because of the effects of them; since hereby justice would be satisfied, the law would be fulfilled, sin atoned for, and the salvation of his elect obtained; for whom he bore the strongest affection, and whom he loved with a love of complacency, and whose salvation he most earnestly desired, and even sufferings for the sake of it.

l Maimon. & Bartenora in Misn. Pesachim, c. 10. sect. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

With desire I have desired - This is a Hebrew form of expression, and means “I have greatly desired.” The reasons why he desired this we may suppose to have been:

1. That, as he was about to leave them, he was desirous once of seeing them together, and of partaking with them of one of the religious privileges of the Jewish dispensation. Jesus was “man” as well as God, and he never undervalued the religious rites of his country, or the blessings of social and religious contact; and there is no impropriety in supposing that even he might feel that his human nature might be prepared by the service of religion for his great and terrible sufferings.
2. He doubtless wished to take an opportunity to prepare “them” for his sufferings, and to impress upon them more fully the certainty that he was about to leave them, that they might be prepared for it.
3. We may also suppose that he particularly desired it that he might institute for “their” use, and for the edification of all Christians, the supper which is called by his name - “the Lord’s Supper.” All his sufferings were the expression of love to his people, and he was desirous of testifying “always” his regard for their comfort and welfare.

Before I suffer - Before I die.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Luke 22:15. With desire I have desired — A Hebraism for, I have desired most earnestly. Our Lord's meaning seems to be, that, having purposed to redeem a lost world by his blood, he ardently longed for the time in which he was to offer himself up. Such love did the holy Jesus bear to the human race. This eucharistic passover was celebrated once, by way of anticipation, before the bloody sacrifice of the victim of salvation, and before the deliverance it was appointed to commemorate; as the figurative passover had been likewise once celebrated before the going out of Egypt, and the deliverance of God's chosen people. Quesnel.