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so that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Luke 22:30 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”
  • KJV That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
  • NKJV that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.”
  • NASB that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
  • NLT to eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. And you will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

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Quick answer

Jesus promises the apostles will feast at His table and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel. He pledges them honored places in His Kingdom.

Overview

Jesus assures His followers of intimate fellowship and shared rule in the consummated Kingdom. The imagery of feasting and thrones points to the full reward awaiting those who endure with Him. It transforms their present trials into the pathway to glory in Christ's eternal reign.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 13

  • Matt 19:28Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, in the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on His glorious throne, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
  • Matt 8:11I say to you that many will come from the east and the west to share the banquet with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
  • Rev 2:26–27And to the one who overcomes and continues in My work until the end, I will give authority over the nations.
  • Luke 12:37Blessed are those servants whom the master finds on watch when he returns. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve and will have them recline at the table, and he himself will come and wait on them.
  • Luke 14:15When one of those reclining with Him heard this, he said to Jesus, “Blessed is everyone who will eat at the feast in the kingdom of God.”
  • Rev 3:21To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to sit with Me on My throne, just as I overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.
  • Rev 19:9Then the angel told me to write, “Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.”
  • 1 Cor 6:2–3Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?
  • Rev 4:4Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and on these thrones sat twenty-four elders dressed in white, with golden crowns on their heads.
  • 2 Sam 9:9–10Then the king summoned Saul’s servant Ziba and said to him, “I have given to your master’s grandson all that belonged to Saul and to all his house.
  • Luke 22:16–18For I tell you that I will not eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.”
  • Ps 49:14Like sheep they are destined for Sheol. Death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning, and their form will decay in Sheol, far from their lofty abode.
  • 2 Sam 19:28For all the house of my grandfather deserves death from my lord the king, yet you have set your servant among those who eat at your table. What further right, then, do I have to keep appealing to the king?”

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Christ at the center

Luke shows Jesus the Savior for all — outsiders, the poor, the nations — the one who, on the Emmaus road, opened all the Scriptures to show they were about himself.

How Luke 22:30 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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