37 For I tell you that this that is written must be fulfilled in me: ‘And he was counted with the criminals.’[a] For indeed, what is written[b] about me is being fulfilled.”[c] 38 So they said, “Lord, behold, here are two swords!” And he said to them, “It is adequate.”

The Prayer in Gethsemane

39 And he went away and[d] proceeded, according to his[e] custom, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples also followed him.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 22:37 A quotation from Isa 53:12
  2. Luke 22:37 The phrase “what is written” is not in the Greek text but is an understood repetition of the similar phrase at the beginning of the verse
  3. Luke 22:37 Literally “is having an end”
  4. Luke 22:39 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“went away”) has been translated as a finite verb
  5. Luke 22:39 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun