Verse Lens · Expanded explanation
Luke 22:69 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 69. 69Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God.
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Quick Meaning
Luke 22:69 places the Son of Man at God's right hand before Roman judgment.
Read It With
- Luke 22:63–22:71
Read Luke 22:69 with 22:63–22:71. Luke 22:69 places the Son of Man at God's right hand before Roman judgment. The complete unit's controlling movement is: Men holding Jesus mock, blindfold, strike, and demand prophecy; at daybreak the council questions his Messianic and Son-of-God identity, and his answers invoke the Son of Man at God's right hand.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Luke 22:69 places the Son of Man at God's right hand before Roman judgment. This selected detail moves Luke 22:63–22:71 from its initiating question or action toward the unit's response and prepares Luke's next movement.
Follow the Context
- Identify the actors, setting, and initiating speech or action in Luke 22:63–22:71.
- Men holding Jesus mock, blindfold, strike, and demand prophecy; at daybreak the council questions his Messianic and Son-of-God identity, and his answers invoke the Son of Man at God's right hand.
- Hold this material interpretive limit in view: Luke distinguishes detention abuse from the council hearing and does not narrate a completed capital sentence here. The scene is intra-Jewish conflict under Roman authority and has a dangerous anti-Jewish reception.
What This Verse Is Not Saying
The scene does not authorize torture, antisemitism, collective Jewish guilt, contempt for councils, or treating abuse as valid interrogation.
What Remains True
Luke 22:69 places the Son of Man at God's right hand before Roman judgment. Read inside Luke 22:63–22:71, this contribution supports the unit's proportionate truth: Men holding Jesus mock, blindfold, strike, and demand prophecy; at daybreak the council questions his Messianic and Son-of-God identity, and his answers invoke the Son of Man at God's right hand. Its use remains accountable to affected people and the unit's explicit boundary.
How It Can Shape Life
- When teaching Luke 22:69, explain this exact contribution inside Luke 22:63–22:71, identify the unit's source-controlled uncertainty, and refuse this misuse before proposing action: The scene does not authorize torture, antisemitism, collective Jewish guilt, contempt for councils, or treating abuse as valid interrogation.
Teach It Back
Explain Luke 22:69's specific contribution to Luke 22:63–22:71: places the Son of Man at God's right hand before Roman judgment. Include the preceding and following movement, one source-controlled uncertainty, one affected person or group, and what the verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
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Read Luke 22:63–22:71 — Abuse and Council Examination Precede Roman JudgmentSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
Luke distinguishes detention abuse from the council hearing and does not narrate a completed capital sentence here. The scene is intra-Jewish conflict under Roman authority and has a dangerous anti-Jewish reception.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and coverage.
Exact location: Luke 22:63–22:71, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and sentence relations; the edition is not treated as a complete apparatus.
Exact location: Faithlife SBLGNT official repository, data/sblgnt/text/Luke.txt, 22:63–22:71
Open the Luke Greek text file ↗open translation and translator notes
NET Bible First Edition Notes: Luke
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level translation, syntax, KJV-language clarification, historical notes, Synoptic parallels, and textual alternatives.
Exact location: NET Bible First Edition Luke PDF, exact tn/tc/sn entries attached to Luke 22:63–22:71
Open source ↗