What Does Luke 22:28 Mean?
You are the ones who have stayed with me through my trials.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations.THE KEY
Belonging is pictured as staying with Jesus inside the test, where companionship holds under pressure.
THE MEANING
You are addressed as one who remains with Jesus in the testing, with companionship still present under pressure. The trial does not mean that presence is absent; the verse places Jesus and those who stay together within it. “Temptations” can also name trials that test what holds.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that closeness with Jesus must mean a life without testing; here, companionship persists within the pressure.
THE ROOT
διαμεμενηκότες
diamemenēkotes
GROWS FROM
μένω
menō
To remain, stay, or abide; διαμένω (diameno) carries the sense of continuing or remaining through.
“stayed through” in this verse is diamemenēkotes. The word describes more than a moment of presence: it names staying with Jesus through the testing. The perfect form presents that staying as an endurance that still defines the relationship being named.
ALSO GROWS
monē: Dwelling place, abode.
μονή
The same word family links remaining with the place where one dwells, opening a picture of companionship as a shared place of abiding.
epimenō: Continue, persist, remain.
ἐπιμένω
This compound keeps the same root and makes persistence explicit, echoing the staying that the verse recognizes.
πειρασμοῖς
peirasmois
GROWS FROM
πειρ-
peir-
To try, test, or put to proof.
“trials” in this verse is peirasmois. The Greek word πειρασμός (peirasmos) can name temptation or a trial that tests what holds. Here, the shared phrase “with me” places the testing within companionship rather than describing pressure in isolation.
ALSO GROWS
peirazō: Test, try, put to proof.
πειράζω
This verb from the same word family shows the testing sense carried by “temptations.”
peirasmos: Temptation, trial, testing.
πειρασμός
This is the singular form behind the verse’s plural, showing that the pressure may be understood as testing as well as temptation.
THE PATTERN
Companionship is revealed by remaining together through pressure.
Even though I walk through the valley of deepest darkness, I do not fear harm, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it stays in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.If we remain under it, we will also reign together with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us.THE THREAD
Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it stays in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.Luke’s “continued” is διαμένω (diameno), built on μένω (meno), the same root as “abide” here. Both verses picture relationship as staying with Jesus, one within testing and the other as a branch remaining in the vine.
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