In these verses (Lk. only) Jesus announces a change of method from that advocated in Luke 9:3; Luke 10:4. Montefiore soundly says Luke 22:35 f. must be considered apart from Luke 22:37 and especially from Luke 22:38. It is not a counsel to resist the coming arrest of Jesus, but to prepare for the new missionary experiences awaiting them after His death, when, instead of the welcome accorded them on their first tour, they will have to make their way in the face of opposition and hostility. The sword is thus probably metaphorical. This seems preferable to J. Weiss's idea that Jesus is thinking of the fire He is going to kindle at Jerusalem (Luke 12:49); it will be fatal to Himself, but He hopes the others will be able to hack their way through. Luke 22:37 means that the curtain is about to be rung down on Jesus-' life. The connexion with Luke 22:35 f. is that thus a new (and dangerous) chapter is to open for His followers. hath fulfilment: better hath an end. Luke 22:38 has to do with immediate events. It may be the genesis of the whole paragraph. Jesus may have feared a secret attack from assassins (so Pfleiderer) which He would resist, and when the disciples say they have two swords in readiness He says they will be enough. When the real danger disclosed itself as a formal arrest (Luke 22:47 ff.), He would not use the sword. Luke 22:35 f. may have been inserted because of the mention of swords, and to explain Jesus-' approval of the weapon. Or (with Burkitt, Gospel Hist., 140) we may connect Luke 22:38 with Luke 22:36 by supposing that the disciples misunderstand Jesus-' counsel for the future. They produce their two swords, and He, disappointed with their obtuseness, dismisses the subject with the sadly ironical words Enough, enough. As it was forbidden to carry a sword on feast days we have an indication that the Passover had not begun; cf. Luke 22:15 ff.*
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Luke 22:35-38
35 And he said unto them,When I sent you without purse, and scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing.
36 Then said he unto them,But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.
37 For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end.
38 And they said, Lord, behold, here are two swords. And he said unto them,It is enough.