Mark 10:38

World English Bible (2000)

But Jesus said to them, "You don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?"

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  • Luke 12:50 : 50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
  • Luke 22:42 : 42 saying, "Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done."
  • John 18:11 : 11 Jesus therefore said to Peter, "Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?"
  • Isa 51:22 : 22 Thus says your Lord Yahweh, and your God who pleads the cause of his people, "Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath; you shall no more drink it again:
  • Mark 14:36 : 36 He said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me. However, not what I desire, but what you desire."
  • 1 Kgs 2:22 : 22 King Solomon answered his mother, "Why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also; for he is my elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah."
  • Ps 75:8 : 8 For in the hand of Yahweh there is a cup, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours it out. Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.
  • Jer 25:15 : 15 For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to me: take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.
  • Jer 45:5 : 5 Do you seek great things for yourself? Don't seek them; for, behold, I will bring evil on all flesh, says Yahweh; but your life will I give to you for a prey in all places where you go.
  • Matt 20:21-22 : 21 He said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand, and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom." 22 But Jesus answered, "You don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?" They said to him, "We are able."
  • Matt 26:39 : 39 He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire."
  • Rom 8:26 : 26 In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don't know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can't be uttered.
  • Jas 4:3 : 3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 94%

    21 He said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand, and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom."

    22 But Jesus answered, "You don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?" They said to him, "We are able."

    23 He said to them, "You will indeed drink my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with, but to sit on my right hand and on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for whom it has been prepared by my Father."

  • 90%

    39 They said to him, "We are able." Jesus said to them, "You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and you shall be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with;

    40 but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give, but for whom it has been prepared."

  • 79%

    35 James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to him, saying, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask."

    36 He said to them, "What do you want me to do for you?"

    37 They said to him, "Grant to us that we may sit, one at your right hand, and one at your left hand, in your glory."

  • 11 Jesus therefore said to Peter, "Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?"

  • 10 Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

  • 50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!

  • Luke 9:54-55
    2 verses
    70%

    54 When his disciples, James and John, saw this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from the sky, and destroy them, just as Elijah did?"

    55 But he turned and rebuked them, "You don't know of what kind of spirit you are.

  • 16 So Jesus said, "Do you also still not understand?

  • 27 He took the cup, gave thanks, and gave to them, saying, "All of you drink it,

  • 68 and if I ask, you will in no way answer me or let me go.

  • 41 For whoever will give you a cup of water to drink in my name, because you are Christ's, most certainly I tell you, he will in no way lose his reward.

  • 36 He said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me. However, not what I desire, but what you desire."

  • 69%

    29 Jesus said to them, "I will ask you one question. Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things.

    30 The baptism of John--was it from heaven, or from men? Answer me."

  • 23 He took the cup, and when he had given thanks, he gave to them. They all drank of it.

  • 42 saying, "Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done."

  • 33 They answered Jesus, "We don't know." Jesus said to them, "Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things."

  • 21 You can't both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can't both partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.

  • 42 Jesus summoned them, and said to them, "You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.

  • Matt 3:14-15
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    68%

    14 But John would have hindered him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me?"

    15 But Jesus, answering, said to him, "Allow it now, for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he allowed him.

  • 3 Or don't you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

  • Luke 20:3-4
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    68%

    3 He answered them, "I also will ask you one question. Tell me:

    4 the baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men?"

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    27 Then Peter answered, "Behold, we have left everything, and followed you. What then will we have?"

    28 Jesus said to them, "Most certainly I tell you that you who have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of Man will sit on the throne of his glory, you also will sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

  • 42 Whoever gives one of these little ones just a cup of cold water to drink in the name of a disciple, most certainly I tell you he will in no way lose his reward."

  • 21 Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me what I said to them. Behold, these know the things which I said."

  • 32 But they didn't understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.

  • 32 Jesus stood still, and called them, and asked, "What do you want me to do for you?"

  • 25 They asked him, "Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?"

  • 3 He said, "Into what then were you baptized?" They said, "Into John's baptism."

  • 29 Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.

  • 8 I baptized you in water, but he will baptize you in the Holy Spirit."

  • 9 Then his disciples asked him, "What does this parable mean?"

  • 21 He asked them, "Don't you understand, yet?"

  • 33 So therefore whoever of you who doesn't renounce all that he has, he can't be my disciple.

  • 42 Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, "My Father, if this cup can't pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done."

  • 30 that you may eat and drink at my table in my Kingdom. You will sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel."

  • 27 They answered Jesus, and said, "We don't know." He also said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.

  • 24 Jesus answered them, "I also will ask you one question, which if you tell me, I likewise will tell you by what authority I do these things.

  • 28 But you are those who have continued with me in my trials.

  • 13 Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,

  • 18 Having eyes, don't you see? Having ears, don't you hear? Don't you remember?