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LUKE 22:53 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
Luke 22:52Luke 22:54
“When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”
Every day I was with you in the temple courts, and you did not lay a hand on me. But this is your hour — when darkness reigns — every day I was in the temple: the public presence that made arrest possible and was not used. But this is your hour (hē hōra hymōn): the appointed moment of the powers of darkness. The darkness reigns: the night of the arrest is the darkness that the light has come to overcome.

Church Fathers on Luke 22:53

After first mentioning the prayer of Christ, St. Luke goes on to speak of His betrayal wherein He is betrayed by His disciple, saying, And while he yet spoke, behold a multitude, and he that was called Judas.

Gloss (Glossa Ordinaria) · medieval compilation

He says, he that was called Judas, holding his name as it were in abhorrence; but adds, one of the twelve, to signify the enormity of the traitor. For he who bad been honored as an apostle became the cause of the murder of Christ.

Cyril of Alexandria · 5th century

For just as incurable wounds yield neither to severe nor soothing remedies, so the soul when once it is taken captive, and has sold itself to any particular sin, will reap no benefit from admonition. And so it was with Judas, who desisted not from His betrayal, though deterred by Christ by every manner of warning. Hence it follows, And drew near to Jesus to kiss him.

Chrysostom · 4th century
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