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that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Luke 22:30 · New American 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.
  • BSB so that you 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.”
  • 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, “Most certainly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
  • Matt 8:11I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven,
  • Rev 2:26–27He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations.
  • Luke 12:37Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you, that he will dress himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them.
  • Luke 14:15When one of those who sat at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, “Blessed is he who will feast in God’s Kingdom!”
  • Rev 3:21He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.
  • Rev 19:9He said to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.’” He said to me, “These are true words of God.”
  • 1 Cor 6:2–3Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
  • Rev 4:4Around the throne were twenty-four thrones. On the thrones were twenty-four elders sitting, dressed in white garments, with crowns of gold on their heads.
  • 2 Sam 9:9–10Then the king called to Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said to him, “All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master’s son.
  • Luke 22:16–18for I tell you, I will no longer by any means eat of it until it is fulfilled in God’s Kingdom.”
  • Ps 49:14They are appointed as a flock for Sheol. Death shall be their shepherd. The upright shall have dominion over them in the morning. Their beauty shall decay in Sheol, far from their mansion.
  • 2 Sam 19:28For all my father’s house were but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right therefore have I yet that I should cry any more 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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