The first movement of Jesus’ Passion began with Judas determined to betray with the teachers of Israel and put Jesus to death (22:1-6, 21-23). As part of the first movement, Jesus institutes the Lord’s Supper as a fulfillment of the Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread. As we learned in our last sermon (22:1-23) the final Passover was celebrated because the final, eschatological and consummate Passover lamb was sacrificed for sin. Now as believers, we live celebrating the Feast of Unleavened Bread as those united to Jesus Christ by faith (1 Cor. 5:6-8).
In our passage this Lord’s Day, we enter the second movement of Jesus’ Passion, and darkness continues to fall over Jerusalem. There is much preparation before Jesus is actually betrayed and so Jesus speaks to His disciples about greatness in the Kingdom, he tells them that he must fulfill Isaiah’s prophecy of the Suffering Servant (22:37), and that they must pray to resist temptation in this eschatological moment when the enmity between the Seed of the Woman and the Seed of the Serpent is heightened and intensified in Jesus’ betrayal (“the hour of the power of darkness”, cf. 22:53b).
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Rev. Charles R. Biggs, Th.M. is the Regional Home Missionary of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in the Presbytery of the Mid Atlantic (Virginia and Maryland). His website: www.joiningtheharvest.org. He was pastor of Ketoctin Covenant Presbyterian Church in Purcellville, VA. for...