Luke 12:50

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

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  • John 19:30 : 30 When he had received the sour wine, Jesus said,“It is completed!” Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
  • Acts 20:22 : 22 And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem without knowing what will happen to me there,
  • John 10:39-41 : 39 Then they attempted again to seize him, but he escaped their clutches. 40 Jesus went back across the Jordan River again to the place where John had been baptizing at an earlier time, and he stayed there. 41 Many came to him and began to say,“John performed no miraculous sign, but everything John said about this man was true!”
  • John 12:27-28 : 27 “Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say?‘Father, deliver me from this hour’? No, but for this very reason I have come 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! Am I not to drink the cup that the Father has given me?”
  • Ps 40:8 : 8 I want to do what pleases you, my God. Your law dominates my thoughts.”
  • Matt 20:17-22 : 17 Third Prediction of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve aside privately and said to them on the way, 18 “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the experts in the law. They will condemn him to death, 19 and will turn him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged severely and crucified. Yet on the third day, he will be raised.” 20 A Request for James and John Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, and kneeling down she asked him for a favor. 21 He said to her,“What do you want?” She replied,“Permit these two sons of mine to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your kingdom.” 22 Jesus answered,“You don’t know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup I am about to drink?” They said to him,“We are able.”
  • Mark 10:32-38 : 32 Third Prediction of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem. Jesus was going ahead of them, and they were amazed, but those who followed were afraid. He took the twelve aside again and began to tell them what was going to happen to him. 33 “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and experts in the law. They will condemn him to death and will turn him over to the Gentiles. 34 They will mock him, spit on him, flog him severely, and kill him. Yet after three days, he will rise again.” 35 The Request of James and John 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 He said to them,“What do you want me to do for you?” 37 They said to him,“Permit one of us to sit at your right hand and the other at your left in your glory.” 38 But Jesus said to them,“You don’t know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I experience?”
  • John 4:34 : 34 Jesus said to them,“My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work.
  • John 7:6-8 : 6 So Jesus replied,“My time has not yet arrived, but you are ready at any opportunity! 7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil. 8 You go up to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast because my time has not yet fully arrived.”
  • John 7:10 : 10 But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then Jesus himself also went up, not openly but in secret.

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    11 “I baptize you with water, for repentance, but the one coming after me is more powerful than I am– I am not worthy to carry his sandals! He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

    12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire!”

    13 The Baptism of Jesus Then Jesus came from Galilee to John to be baptized by him in the Jordan River.

    14 But John tried to prevent him, saying,“I need to be baptized by you, and yet you come to me?”

    15 So Jesus replied to him,“Let it happen now, for it is right for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John yielded to him.

    16 After Jesus was baptized, just as he was coming up out of the water, the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him.

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    7 He proclaimed,“One more powerful than I am is coming after me; I am not worthy to bend down and untie the strap of his sandals.

    8 I baptize you with water, but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”

    9 The Baptism and Temptation of Jesus Now in those days Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan River.

    10 And just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens splitting apart and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.

  • 16 John answered them all,“I baptize you with water, but one more powerful than I am is coming– I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

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    27 “Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say?‘Father, deliver me from this hour’? No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour.

    28 Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven,“I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”

  • 31 I did not recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he could be revealed to Israel.”

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    38 But Jesus said to them,“You don’t know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I experience?”

    39 They said to him,“We are able.” Then Jesus said to them,“You will drink the cup I drink, and you will be baptized with the baptism I experience,

  • 37 For I tell you that this scripture must be fulfilled in me,‘And he was counted with the transgressors.’ For what is written about me is being fulfilled.”

  • 54 How then would the scriptures that say it must happen this way be fulfilled?”

  • 51 Do you think I have come to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division!

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    24 Before Jesus arrived, John had proclaimed a baptism for repentance to all the people of Israel.

    25 But while John was completing his mission, he said repeatedly,‘What do you think I am? I am not he. But look, one is coming after me. I am not worthy to untie the sandals on his feet!’

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

  • 22 Further Testimony About Jesus by John the Baptist After this, Jesus and his disciples came into Judean territory, and there he spent time with them and was baptizing.

  • 33 And I did not recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me,‘The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining– this is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

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    26 John answered them,“I baptize with water. Among you stands one whom you do not recognize,

    27 who is coming after me. I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandal!”

    28 These things happened in Bethany across the Jordan River where John was baptizing.

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    22 Jesus answered,“You don’t know what you are asking! Are you able to drink the cup I am about to drink?” They said to him,“We are able.”

    23 He told them,“You will drink my cup, but to sit at my right and at my left is not mine to give. Rather, it is for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father.”

  • 30 He must become more important while I become less important.”

  • 16 And I remembered the word of the Lord, as he used to say,‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’

  • 33 (Now he said this to indicate clearly what kind of death he was going to die.)

  • 12 Tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him,“Teacher, what should we do?”

  • 21 The Baptism of Jesus Now when all the people were baptized, Jesus also was baptized. And while he was praying, the heavens opened,

  • 30 John’s baptism– was it from heaven or from people? Answer me.”

  • 12 Preaching in Galilee Now when Jesus heard that John had been imprisoned, he went into Galilee.

  • 38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

  • 3 So Paul said,“Into what then were you baptized?”“Into John’s baptism,” they replied.

  • 15 so that no one can say that you were baptized in my name!

  • 2 (although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were),

  • 34 Jesus said to them,“My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work.

  • 42 “Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me. Yet not my will but yours be done.”[

  • 26 So they came to John and said to him,“Rabbi, the one who was with you on the other side of the Jordan River, about whom you testified– see, he is baptizing, and everyone is flocking to him!”

  • 23 Jesus replied,“The time has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.

  • 34 Not Peace, but a Sword“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace but a sword!

  • 36 Now as they were going along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said,“Look, there is water! What is to stop me from being baptized?”

  • 50 And I know that his commandment is eternal life. Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me.”

  • 17 This fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah:

  • 22 And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem without knowing what will happen to me there,