Matthew 26 Bible study: Your desire be done

"When Jesus had finished all these words, he said to his disciples, “You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”" (26:1-2). It is the last of the five verses where Matthew says Jesus had finished speaking (7:28, 11:1, 13:53, 19:1, 26:1). Here is what almost everyone misses: the first time Matthew's Gospel names the Passover, it is in Jesus's own words (26:2). Only after them does Matthew tell of those who plotted: "Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas" (26:3), and "They took counsel together that they might take Jesus by deceit and kill him" (26:4). They said, "Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people" (26:5). Mark's telling opens with the time in Mark's own words: "It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread" (Mark 14:1). After the woman at Bethany (26:6-13), "Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests" (26:14). He said, "What are you willing to give me if I deliver him to you?", and "they weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver" (26:15). "From that time he sought opportunity to betray him" (26:16). Matthew uses the same words, From that time, of Jesus twice: "From that time, Jesus began to preach" (4:17), and "From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem" (16:21); in Greek too, the two words are the same in all three, in every edition. Matthew doesn't say what the likeness means, and these notes don't either. Matthew gives Judas's question and says no more of why he went; Favor's Mark 14 asks why Judas betrayed him and gives no reason beyond the verses, and these notes give none. Matthew tells of the thirty pieces of silver again in the next chapter (27:3-10).

Matthew 26:32→leads toMatthew 28:16-17

"When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives" (Matthew 26:30), and Jesus said to them, "But after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee" (Matthew 26:32). In the last chapter, "the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had sent them. When they saw him, they bowed down to him" (Matthew 28:16-17). The angel at the tomb (Matthew 28:7), and then Jesus as the women go (Matthew 28:9-10), speak of Galilee again. Mark's telling has its own line, from Mark 14:28 to Mark 16:7.

παραδίδωμιparadidomisay par-ad-EED-o-mee

Strong's: "to surrender, i.e yield up, intrust, transmit". "woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed!" (26:24). In this chapter the verb is tagged ten times, in ten verses (26:2, 26:15, 26:16, 26:21, 26:23, 26:24, 26:25, 26:45, 26:46, 26:48), counted in RP2018, the Byzantine text the WEB translates, and the WEB gives it as delivered up, deliver, betray, betrayed and betrays. It is in Jesus's own "the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified" (26:2) and "the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners" (26:45), and in Judas's question to the chief priests in 26:15. Matthew has it again in the next chapter: "They bound him, led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor" (27:2). Favor's Matthew 17 counts it in Matthew.