Luke Chapter 12 verse 50 Holy Bible
But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!
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But there is a baptism which I have to undergo; and how am I kept back till it is complete!
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But I have a baptism to be baptised with, and how am I straitened until it shall have been accomplished!
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But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!
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But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
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but I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I pressed till it may be completed!
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 50. - But I have a baptism to he baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished! The baptism he here speaks of was the baptism of pain and suffering and death - what we call the Passion of the Lord. He knew it must all be gone through, to bring about the blessed result for which he left his home in heaven; but he looked on to it, nevertheless, with terror and shrinking. "He is under pressure," says Godet, "to enter into this suffering because he is in haste to get out of it, mournfully impatient to have done with a painful task." This passage of the discourse of Jesus here has been called "a prelude of Gethsemane."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(50) I have a baptism to be baptized with.--Here we have a point of contact with the words spoken to the sons of Zebedee. (See Notes on Matthew 20:22, and Mark 10:38.) The baptism of which the Lord now speaks is that of one who is come into deep waters, so that the floods pass over him, over whose head have passed and are passing the waves and billows of many and great sorrows. Yet here, too, the Son of Man does not shrink or draw back. What He felt most keenly, in His human nature, was the pain, the constraint of expectation. He was, in that perfect humanity of His, harassed and oppressed, as other sufferers have been, by the thought of what was coming, more than by the actual suffering when it came.
