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The Passion and Resurrection[a]

Chapter 22

The Conspiracy against Jesus.[b] Now the feast of Unleavened Bread, known as the Passover, was drawing near, and the chief priests and the scribes were looking for some way to put Jesus to death, for they were afraid of the people.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 22:1 The salvation of human beings is accomplished in a unique event: Christ’s Death and Resurrection. This is the Paschal mystery. The account that follows is fashioned by this principal testimony; hence it must be read as a unified whole. From the beginnings of the Church, this is the Gospel, the essence of the Christian announcement.
  2. Luke 22:1 Before the episodes of the Passion unfold, the plot thickens with the adversaries of Jesus. The leaders of the people take the initiative in the plot, and the traitor serves them as an instrument, but it is the spirit of evil who initiates the last combat.