Luke 22:53

New International Reader's Version

Every day I was with you in the temple courtyard. And you didn’t lay a hand on me. But this is your hour. This is when darkness rules.”

Cross References

Job 20:5

Those who are evil are happy for only a short time. The joy of ungodly people lasts only for a moment.

Matthew 21:23

Jesus entered the temple courtyard. While he was teaching there, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him. “By what authority are you doing these things?” they asked. “Who gave you this authority?”

Luke 22:52

Then Jesus spoke to the chief priests, the officers of the temple guard, and the elders. They had all come for him. “Am I leading a band of armed men against you?” he asked. “Do you have to come with swords and clubs?

Luke 22:54

Then the men arrested Jesus and led him away. They took him into the high priest’s house. Peter followed from far away.

John 12:27

“My soul is troubled. What should I say? ‘Father, keep me from having to go through with this’? No. This is the very reason I have come to this point in my life.

John 13:30

As soon as Judas had taken the bread, he went out. And it was night.

John 14:30

I will not say much more to you. The prince of this world is coming. He has no power over me.

John 7:30

When he said this, they tried to arrest him. But no one laid a hand on him. The time for him to show who he really was had not yet come.

John 7:45

Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and the Pharisees. They asked the guards, “Why didn’t you bring him in?”

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes. I want you to turn them from darkness to light. I want you to turn them from Satan’s power to God. I want their sins to be forgiven. They will be forgiven when they believe in me. They will have their place among God’s people.’

Ephesians 6:12

Our fight is not against human beings. It is against the rulers, the authorities and the powers of this dark world. It is against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly world.

Colossians 1:13

He has saved us from the kingdom of darkness. He has brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves.