SEV Biblia, Chapter 22:53
Habiendo estado con vosotros cada día en el Templo, no extendisteis las manos contra mí; mas sta es vuestra hora, y la potestad de las tinieblas.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Luke 22:53
Verse 53. I was daily with you in the temple] Alluding to the four preceding days, during the whole of which he taught in the temple, see chap. xxi. 37, and Matt. xxi. 17. This is your hour, and the power of darkness.] That is, the time in which you are permitted to unrein your malice; which ye could not do before, because God did not permit you; and so perfectly are ye under his control that neither you nor the prince of darkness can proceed a hair's breadth against me but through this permission: see at the end of the chapter. What a comfortable thought is it to the followers of Christ, that neither men nor demons can act against them but by the permission of their heavenly Father, and that he will not suffer any of those who trust in him to be tried above what they are able to bear, and will make the trial issue in their greater salvation, and in his glory!
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 53. When I was daily with you in the temple , etc.] As he had been for some days past, teaching the people, and disputing with them, the chief priests, etc. ye stretched forth no hands against me ; to lay hold upon him, and kill him; the reason was, because his time was not come, and they had no licence or permission to hurt him, or any power given them against him from above: but this is your hour ; the time was now come for the betraying of him by Judas; for the seizing and apprehending him by the Roman soldiers and officers; and for the delivery of him into the hands of the chief priests and elders; and for them to insult, mock, buffet, scourge him, and spit upon him: and for the crucifixion of him, and putting him to death: the hour fixed for this was now come; it was now, and not before, and therefore they could not lay hold on him, and do to him what they listed, but now they might; yet this was but an hour, a short time that they had to triumph over him, in Caiaphas's palace, and Pilate's hall, upon the cross, and in the grave; for on the third day he arose again, notwithstanding all the precautions they took, and is ascended to heaven, and is received there, and is out of their reach: and since then, it has been his hour to take vengeance on them; on their nation, city, and temple, for their disbelief, rejection, and ill usage of him; and it will be likewise his hour at the day of judgment, when they shall look on him whom they have pierced, and mourn; and hide their faces from him, and call to the mountains to cover them, and when they will be punished with everlasting destruction from his presence: he adds, and the power of darkness . The Persic version reads, the power of your darkness; that is, either the power granted to them, who were darkness itself, born and brought up in darkness; were walking in darkness, and in the ignorance of their minds; and did works of darkness, and shunned the light, because their deeds were evil; and for which reason they now chose the night, to execute their black designs upon Christ: or rather, the power of the prince of darkness is here meant; that power which he usurped, and was now permitted him to exercise against Christ: and so the Ethiopic version renders it, the power of the lord of darkness; who was, once an angel of light, but now full of darkness, and who darkens the minds of men, and for whom blackness of darkness is reserved: the Jews were used to call the evil angels by this name; for so they say f677 , the destroying angels are called, hlpaw j , darkness, and thick darkness.
The sense of the whole passage is, that now was the time come, that Christ should be delivered up into the hands of wicked men and devils; that the former should have him in their power, and triumph over him for a season; and that hell was now let loose, and all the infernal powers were about him, throwing their poisoned arrows and fiery darts at him; all which Christ endured, to deliver his people from the present evil world, from the wrath of God, the curses of the law, and from the power of darkness.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 47-53 - Nothing can be a greater affront or grief to the Lord Jesus, than to be betrayed by those who profess to be his followers, and say that the love him. Many instances there are, of Christ's being betrayed by thos who, under the form of godliness, fight against the power of it. Jesu here gave an illustrious example of his own rule of doing good to thos that hate us, as afterwards he did of praying for those tha despitefully use us. Corrupt nature warps our conduct to extremes; we should seek for the Lord's direction before we act in difficul circumstances. Christ was willing to wait for his triumphs till his warfare was accomplished, and we must be so too. But the hour and the power of darkness were short, and such the triumphs of the wicke always will be.
Greek Textus Receptus
καθ 2596 PREP ημεραν 2250 N-ASF οντος 5607 5752 V-PXP-GSM μου 3450 P-1GS μεθ 3326 PREP υμων 5216 P-2GP εν 1722 PREP τω 3588 T-DSN ιερω 2411 N-DSN ουκ 3756 PRT-N εξετεινατε 1614 5656 V-AAI-2P τας 3588 T-APF χειρας 5495 N-APF επ 1909 PREP εμε 1691 P-1AS αλλ 235 CONJ αυτη 3778 D-NSF υμων 5216 P-2GP εστιν 2076 5748 V-PXI-3S η 3588 T-NSF ωρα 5610 N-NSF και 2532 CONJ η 3588 T-NSF εξουσια 1849 N-NSF του 3588 T-GSN σκοτους 4655 N-GSN
Robertson's NT Word Studies
22:53 {But this is your hour} (all' haute estin humwn he hwra). So Jesus surrenders. The moral value of his atoning sacrifice on the Cross consists in the voluntariness of his death. He makes it clear that they have taken undue advantage of him in this hour of secret prayer and had failed to seize him in public in the temple. But "the power of darkness" (he exousia tou skotous), had its turn. A better day will come. The might, authority of darkness.
