Λουκᾶν 22:53

Greek Modern Translation

καθ' ημεραν ημην μεθ' υμων εν τω ιερω και δεν ηπλωσατε τας χειρας επ' εμε. Αλλ' αυτη ειναι η ωρα σας και η εξουσια του σκοτους.

Parallel Translations

Byzantine/Majority Text
καθ ημεραν οντος μου μεθ υμων εν τω ιερω ουκ εξετεινατε τας χειρας επ εμε αλλ αυτη υμων εστιν η ωρα και η εξουσια του σκοτους

SBL Greek New Testament (2010)
καθ ἡμέραν ὄντος μου μεθ ὑμῶν ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ οὐκ ἐξετείνατε τὰς χεῖρας ἐπ ἐμέ· ἀλλ αὕτη ⸂ἐστὶν ὑμῶν⸃ ἡ ὥρα καὶ ἡ ἐξουσία τοῦ σκότους.

Tischendorf 8th Edition
καθ’ ἡμέραν ὄντος μου μεθ’ ὑμῶν ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ οὐκ ἐξετείνατε τὰς χεῖρας ἐπ’ ἐμέ. ἀλλ’ αὕτη ἐστὶν ὑμῶν ἡ ὥρα καὶ ἡ ἐξουσία τοῦ σκότους.

Textus Receptus (1550/1894)
καθ ημεραν οντος μου μεθ υμων εν τω ιερω ουκ εξετεινατε τας χειρας επ εμε αλλ αυτη υμων εστιν η ωρα και η εξουσια του σκοτους

Westcott/Hort UBS4 (1881)
καθ ημεραν οντορ μου μεθ υμων εν τω ιερω ουκ εξετεινατε ταρ χειραρ επ εμε αλλ αυτη εστιν υμων η ωρα και η εξουσια του σκοτουρ

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I was: Luke 21:37, Luke 21:38, Matthew 21:12-15, Matthew 21:23, Matthew 21:45, Matthew 21:46, John 7:25, John 7:26, John 7:30, John 7:45

but: Judges 16:21-30, Job 20:5, John 12:27, John 16:20-22

the power: John 14:30, Acts 26:18, 2 Corinthians 4:3-6, Ephesians 6:12, Colossians 1:13, Revelation 12:9-12

Reciprocal: Genesis 3:15 - thou Psalms 13:2 - exalted Psalms 22:21 - me from Matthew 4:11 - the devil Matthew 26:18 - My time Matthew 26:45 - the hour Matthew 26:55 - Are Mark 14:48 - Are John 7:32 - sent John 13:1 - knew John 17:1 - the hour John 19:11 - Thou Acts 5:42 - daily Acts 12:1 - stretched forth his hands Hebrews 2:18 - suffered

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When I was daily with you in the temple,.... As he had been for some days past, teaching the people, and disputing with them, the chief priests, c.

ye stretched forth no hands against me to lay hold upon him, and kill him; the reason was, because his time was not come, and they had no licence or permission to hurt him, or any power given them against him from above:

but this is your hour; the time was now come for the betraying of him by Judas; for the seizing and apprehending him by the Roman soldiers and officers; and for the delivery of him into the hands of the "chief" priests and elders; and for them to insult, mock, buffet, scourge him, and spit upon him: and for the crucifixion of him, and putting him to death: the hour fixed for this was now come; it was now, and not before, and therefore they could not lay hold on him, and do to him what they listed, but now they might; yet this was but an hour, a short time that they had to triumph over him, in Caiaphas's palace, and Pilate's hall, upon the cross, and in the grave; for on the third day he arose again, notwithstanding all the precautions they took, and is ascended to heaven, and is received there, and is out of their reach: and since then, it has been his hour to take vengeance on them; on their nation, city, and temple, for their disbelief, rejection, and ill usage of him; and it will be likewise his hour at the day of judgment, when they shall look on him whom they have pierced, and mourn; and hide their faces from him, and call to the mountains to cover them, and when they will be punished with everlasting destruction from his presence: he adds,

and the power of darkness. The Persic version reads, "the power of your darkness"; that is, either the power granted to them, who were darkness itself, born and brought up in darkness; were walking in darkness, and in the ignorance of their minds; and did works of darkness, and shunned the light, because their deeds were evil; and for which reason they now chose the night, to execute their black designs upon Christ: or rather, the power of the prince of darkness is here meant; that power which he usurped, and was now permitted him to exercise against Christ: and so the Ethiopic version renders it, "the power of the lord of darkness"; who was, once an angel of light, but now full of darkness, and who darkens the minds of men, and for whom blackness of darkness is reserved: the Jews were used to call the evil angels by this name; for so they say i,

"the destroying angels are called, חשך ואפלה, "darkness, and thick darkness".''

The sense of the whole passage is, that now was the time come, that Christ should be delivered up into the hands of wicked men and devils; that the former should have him in their power, and triumph over him for a season; and that hell was now let loose, and all the infernal powers were about him, throwing their poisoned arrows and fiery darts at him; all which Christ endured, to deliver his people from the present evil world, from the wrath of God, the curses of the law, and from the power of darkness.

i Raya Mehimna in Zohar in Lev. fol. 37. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See this explained in Matthew 26:48-56.

Luke 22:48

Betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss? - By the “Son of man” was evidently meant “the Messiah.” Judas had had the most satisfactory evidence of that, and did not doubt it. A kiss was the sign of affection. By that slight artifice Judas thought to conceal his base purpose. Jesus with severity reproaches him for it. Every word is emphatic. “Betrayest” thou - dost thou violate all thy obligations of fidelity, and deliver thy Master up to death? Betrayest “thou” - thou, so long with him, so much favored, so sure that this is the Messiah? Betrayest thou “the Son of man” - the Messiah, the hope of the nations, the desire of all people, the world’s Redeemer? Betrayest thou the Son of man “with a kiss” - the sign of friendship and affection employed in a base and wicked purpose, intending to add deceit, disguise, and the prostitution of a mark of affection to the “crime of treason?” Every word of this must have gone to the very soul of Judas. Perhaps few reproofs of crime more resemble the awful searchings of the souls of the wicked in the day of judgment.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 53. I was daily with you in the temple — Alluding to the four preceding days, during the whole of which he taught in the temple, see Luke 21:37, and Matthew 21:17.

This is your hour, and the power of darkness. — That is, the time in which you are permitted to unrein your malice; which ye could not do before, because God did not permit you; and so perfectly are ye under his control that neither you nor the prince of darkness can proceed a hair's breadth against me but through this permission: see at the end of the chapter. What a comfortable thought is it to the followers of Christ, that neither men nor demons can act against them but by the permission of their heavenly Father, and that he will not suffer any of those who trust in him to be tried above what they are able to bear, and will make the trial issue in their greater salvation, and in his glory!