Luke 12:50

King James 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 the ghost.
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 Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand, 40 And went away again beyond Jordan into the place where John at first baptized; and there he abode. 41 And many resorted unto him, and said , John did no miracle: but all things that 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. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.
John 18:11 : 11 Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?
Ps 40:8 : 8 I delight{H8804)} to do{H8800)} thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Matt 20:17-22 : 17 And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them, 18 Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and unto the scribes, and they shall condemn him to death, 19 And shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he shall rise again. 20 Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him. 21 And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom. 22 But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.
Mark 10:32-38 : 32 And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus went before them: and they were amazed; and as they followed, they were afraid. And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them what things should happen unto him, 33 Saying, Behold, we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests, and unto the scribes; and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles: 34 And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he shall rise again. 35 And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come unto him, saying, Master, we would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever we shall desire. 36 And he said unto them, What would ye that I should do for you? 37 {G1161} They said unto him, Grant unto us that we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory. 38 But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? and 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 finish his work.
John 7:6-8 : 6 Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready. 7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil. 8 Go ye up unto this feast: I go not up yet unto this feast; for my time is not yet full come.
John 7:10 : 10 But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.

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