Luke 12:50

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Βάπτισμα δὲ ἔχω βαπτισθῆναι· καὶ πῶς συνέχομαι ἕως οὖ τελεσθῇ!

Transliteration

Baptisma de I echō baptisthēnai; and how I am synechomai until hou it be telesthē!

Grammar Details

*Baptisma*: accusative, neuter, singular - baptism/immersion
*de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and/now
*echō*: present active, 1st singular - I have
*baptisthēnai*: aorist passive infinitive - to be baptized
*synechomai*: present passive, 1st singular - I am constrained/distressed
*hou*: relative pronoun, genitive - of which [time]
*telesthē*: aorist passive subjunctive, 3rd singular - it might be completed/accomplished

Word Meanings

*Baptisma*: baptism/immersion/overwhelming experience
*synechomai*: constrained/distressed/pressed/compelled
*telesthē*: completed/accomplished/fulfilled/finished

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Referenced Verses

John 19:30 : 30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
Acts 20:22 : 22 And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there:
John 10:39-41 : 39 They sought again to take him: and he went forth out of their hand. 40 And he went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was at the first baptizing; and there he abode. 41 And many came unto him; and they said, John indeed did no sign: but all things whatsoever John spake of this man were true.
John 12:27-28 : 27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But for this cause came I unto this hour. 28 Father, glorify thy name. There came therefore a voice out of heaven, [saying], I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.
John 18:11 : 11 Jesus therefore said unto Peter, Put up the sword into the sheath: the cup which the Father hath given me, shall I not {G3361} drink it?
Ps 40:8 : 8 I delight to do thy will, O my God; Yea, thy law is within my heart.
Matt 20:17-22 : 17 And as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples apart, and on the way he said unto them, 18 Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests and scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, 19 and shall deliver him unto the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify: and the third day he shall be raised up. 20 Then came to him the mother of the sons of Zebedee with her sons, worshipping [him], and asking a certain thing of him. 21 And he said unto her, What wouldest thou? She saith unto him, Command that these my two sons may sit, one on thy right hand, and one on thy left hand, in thy kingdom. 22 But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink the cup that I am about to drink? They say unto him, We are able.
Mark 10:32-38 : 32 And they were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going before them: and they were amazed; and they that followed were afraid. And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them the things that were to happen unto him, 33 [ saying], Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests and the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him unto the Gentiles: 34 and they shall mock him, and shall spit upon him, and shall scourge him, and shall kill him; and after three days he shall rise again. 35 And there come near unto him James and John, the sons of Zebedee, saying unto him, Teacher, we would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever we shall ask of thee. 36 And he said unto them, What would ye that I should do for you? 37 And they said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and one on [thy] left hand, in thy glory. 38 But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink the cup that I drink? or to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?
John 4:34 : 34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work.
John 7:6-8 : 6 Jesus therefore saith unto them, My time is not yet come; but your time is always ready. 7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that its works are evil. 8 Go ye up unto the feast: I go not up {G3768} unto this feast; because my time is not yet fulfilled.
John 7:10 : 10 But when his brethren were gone up unto the feast, then went he also up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.

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