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  • Luke 22:53
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 53 While I was with you in the temple day after day,+ you did not lay your hands on me.+ But this is your hour and the authority of darkness.”+

  • Luke 22:53
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
    • 53 καθ’ According to ἡμέραν day ὄντος being μου of me μεθ’ with ὑμῶν YOU ἐν in τῷ the ἱερῷ temple οὐκ not ἐξετείνατε YOU stretched out τὰς the χεῖρας hands ἐπ’ upon ἐμέ· me; ἀλλ’ but αὕτη this ἐστὶν is ὑμῶν of YOU ἡ the ὥρα hour καὶ and ἡ the ἐξουσία authority τοῦ of the σκότους. darkness.

  • Luke 22:53
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 53 While I was with YOU in the temple+ day after day YOU did not stretch out YOUR hands against me.+ But this is YOUR hour+ and the authority+ of darkness.”+

  • Luke 22:53
    The Bible in Living English
    • 53* when I was with you in the temple-precinct day by day you did not lift your hands against me, but this is your moment, under the license of darkness.”

  • Luke 22:53
    American Standard Version
    • 53 When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched not forth your hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.

  • Luke 22:53
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 53 Daily was I with you in the temple, and yet ye stretched not forth your hands against me! . . . But this is your hour and the authority of darkness.

  • Luke 22:53
    King James Version
    • 53 When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.

  • Luke
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2026
    • 22:53 it-1 1153

  • Luke
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 22:53 w75 653-654; w62 6, 684; yb62 7

  • Luke
    Research Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition
    • 22:53

      Insight, Volume 1, p. 1153

  • Luke Study Notes—Chapter 22
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 22:53

      hour: The Greek word hoʹra is here used figuratively to refer to a relatively short period of time.

      the authority of darkness: Or “the power of darkness,” that is, of those who are in spiritual darkness. (Compare Col 1:13.) At Ac 26:18, darkness is mentioned together with “the authority of Satan.” Satan exercised his authority by influencing human agents to carry out the works of darkness that led to the execution of Jesus. For example, the account at Lu 22:3 says that “Satan entered into Judas, the one called Iscariot,” who then betrayed Jesus.​—Ge 3:15; Joh 13:27-30.

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