Luke 12:50

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But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is finished!

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  • John 19:30 : 30 When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, "It is finished." Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
  • Acts 20:22 : 22 'And now, behold, I am bound by the Spirit to go to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there.'
  • John 10:39-41 : 39 Once again they tried to seize him, but he escaped their grasp. 40 Then he went back across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and he remained there. 41 Many people came to him and said, 'Though John never performed a sign, all that he said about this man was true.'
  • John 12:27-28 : 27 Now My soul is troubled. And what shall I say? 'Father, save Me from this hour'? But this is why I came to this hour. 28 Father, glorify Your name." Then a voice came from heaven: "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again."
  • John 18:11 : 11 But Jesus said to Peter, 'Put your sword back into its sheath! Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given me?'
  • Ps 40:8 : 8 Then I said, 'Here I am; I have come. In the scroll of the book it is written about me.'
  • Matt 20:17-22 : 17 As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside privately and said to them, 18 'Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes. They will condemn him to death.' 19 And they will hand him over to the Gentiles to mock, to flog, and to crucify him; and on the third day, he will rise again. 20 Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling before him and asking something from him. 21 'What do you want?' he asked. She said to him, 'Declare that these two sons of mine may sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your kingdom.' 22 Jesus answered, 'You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?' They said to him, 'We are able.'
  • Mark 10:32-38 : 32 They were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them. The disciples were amazed, while those who followed were afraid. Taking the Twelve aside again, he began to tell them what was going to happen to him. 33 'We are going up to Jerusalem,' he said, 'and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death and hand him over to the Gentiles. 34 They will mock him, spit on him, flog him, and kill him. After three days he will rise.' 35 Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him and said, 'Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask.' 36 'What do you want me to do for you?' he asked. 37 They replied, 'Let one of us sit at your right hand and the other at your left in your glory.' 38 Jesus said to them, 'You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?'
  • John 4:34 : 34 Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to accomplish his work.
  • John 7:6-8 : 6 Jesus said to them, 'My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.' 7 'The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify about it that its works are evil.' 8 'You go up to the festival. I am not going up to this festival yet, because My time has not yet been fulfilled.'
  • John 7:10 : 10 But when His brothers had gone up to the festival, He also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.

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    13Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan, to John, to be baptized by him.

    14But John tried to stop Him, saying, 'I need to be baptized by You, and yet You are coming to me?'

    15Jesus answered him, 'Allow it for now, because this is the proper way for us to fulfill all righteousness.' Then John allowed Him.

    16After Jesus was baptized, He immediately came up from the water. At that moment, the heavens were opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming upon Him.

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  • John 12:27-28
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    27Now My soul is troubled. And what shall I say? 'Father, save Me from this hour'? But this is why I came to this hour.

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    31I myself did not know Him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that He might be revealed to Israel.

  • Mark 10:38-39
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    38Jesus said to them, 'You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?'

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    24Before His coming, John had already proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

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    5For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.

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  • John 12:23
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    23Jesus replied to them, "The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

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