The One Redeeming Quality - Luke 23:1-25

Luke begins a graphic account of what the Lord’s Supper represents in two chapters that follow its institution. Jesus was now alone after His closest disciples, like Peter, denied Him and fled from His trial. The prophecies in the previous chapters about the Messiah’s torture, crucifixion, and resurrection were now unfolding as truth. In recounting Christ’s passion story, Luke fulfilled his ultimate purpose of steadying the sometimes wobbly faith of the God-lover in the face of their witness, persecution, and perhaps martyrdom (cf. Luke 1:4)