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Etheridge Translation

Luke 12:50

and I have a baptism (wherewith) to be baptized, and greatly am I pressed till it be completed.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Persecution;   Thompson Chain Reference - Activity;   Christ;   Divinity;   Divinity-Humanity;   Duty;   Earnestness-Indifference;   Fervour;   Foreknowledge;   Imperative Call;   Pressure of Duty;   Sufferings of Christ;   Zeal;   The Topic Concordance - Division;   Jesus Christ;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fire;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Baptism;   Jesus christ;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Baptism of Christ;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Agony;   Baptism;   John the Apostle;   Thieves;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Baptism;   Jesus, Life and Ministry of;   Luke, Gospel of;   Ordinances;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Atonement;   Baptism;   Faith;   Matthew, Gospel According to;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Baptism;   Death of Christ;   Discipline (2);   Endurance;   Enthusiasm;   Foresight;   Marriage (Ii.);   Ministry;   Old Testament (I. Christ as Fulfilment of);   Patience ;   Propitiation (2);   Providence;   Reality;   Redemption (2);   Sacrifice (2);   Sorrow, Man of Sorrows;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Baptism;   19 To Accomplish, Finish, Fulfil;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Baptism;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Ark;   Baptism;   Waves;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Baptism;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Accomplish;   Baptism (Non-Immersionist View);   Baptism (Lutheran Doctrine);   Obedience of Christ;   Strait;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Agony;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
But I have a baptism to undergo,
King James Version (1611)
But I haue a baptisme to be baptized with, and how am I straitned till it be accomplished?
King James Version
But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!
English Standard Version
I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how great is my distress until it is accomplished!
New American Standard Bible
"But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
New Century Version
I have a baptism to suffer through, and I feel very troubled until it is over.
Amplified Bible
"I have a baptism [of great suffering] with which to be baptized, and how [greatly] I am distressed until it is accomplished!
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
Legacy Standard Bible
But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is finished!
Berean Standard Bible
But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
Contemporary English Version
I am going to be put to a hard test. And I will have to suffer a lot of pain until it is over.
Complete Jewish Bible
I have an immersion to undergo — how pressured I feel till it's over!
Darby Translation
But I have a baptism to be baptised with, and how am I straitened until it shall have been accomplished!
Easy-to-Read Version
There is a kind of baptism that I must suffer through. I feel very troubled until it is finished.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Notwithstanding I must be baptized with a baptisme, & how am I grieued, till it be ended?
George Lamsa Translation
I have a baptism to be baptized with; and I am oppressed until it is fulfilled.
Good News Translation
I have a baptism to receive, and how distressed I am until it is over!
Lexham English Bible
But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how I am distressed until it is accomplished!
Literal Translation
But I have a baptism to be immersed in, and how am I pressed until it is done!
American Standard Version
But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!
Bible in Basic English
But there is a baptism which I have to undergo; and how am I kept back till it is complete!
Hebrew Names Version
But I have a immersion to be immersed with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
International Standard Version
I have a baptism to be baptized with, and what stress I am under until it is completed!Matthew 20:22; Mark 10:38;">[xr]
Murdock Translation
And I have a baptism to be baptized with; and I am much pressed until it be accomplished.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Notwithstandyng, I must be baptized with a baptisme, and howe am I payned tyll it be ended?
English Revised Version
But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!
World English Bible
But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And what do I desire? That it were already kindled! But I have a baptism to be baptized with: and how am I straitned till it be accomplished!
Weymouth's New Testament
But I have a baptism to undergo; and how am I pent up till it is accomplished!
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y haue to be baptisid with a baptysm, and hou am Y constreyned, til that it be perfitli don?
Update Bible Version
But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how I am straitened until it is accomplished!
Webster's Bible Translation
But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it shall be accomplished!
New English Translation
I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is finished!
New King James Version
But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am till it is accomplished!
New Living Translation
I have a terrible baptism of suffering ahead of me, and I am under a heavy burden until it is accomplished.
New Life Bible
I have a baptism to go through. How troubled I am until it is over!
New Revised Standard
I have a baptism with which to be baptized, and what stress I am under until it is completed!
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
But, an immersion, have I, to be immersed with, and how am I distressed, until it be ended!
Douay-Rheims Bible
And I have a baptism wherewith I am to be baptized. And how am I straitened until it be accomplished?
Revised Standard Version
I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how I am constrained until it is accomplished!
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Not with stondinge I must de baptised with a baptyme: and how am I payned till it be ended?
Young's Literal Translation
but I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I pressed till it may be completed!
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Notwithstodinge I must first be baptised with a baptyme, and how am I payned tyll it be ended?
Mace New Testament (1729)
the baptism, which I am to undergo, how do I long till it be accomplished?
Simplified Cowboy Version
My upcoming baptism will not be in cool water, but I will suffer a terrible agony until I have paid the price for all.

Contextual Overview

41 Shemun Kipha said to him, Our Lord, to us speakest thou this parable, or to all men also ? 42 Jeshu said to him, Who then is that steward, faithful and wise, whom his lord hath established over his service, to give the portion in its time ? 43 Blessed that servant whom, when his lord shall come, he shall find so doing. 44 Assuredly I tell you, He will establish him over all his substance. 45 But if that servant shall say in his heart, My lord withholdeth to come, and shall begin to beat the servants and the handmaids of his lord, and shall begin to eat and to drink and be drunken; 46 the lord of that servant will come in a day when he thinketh not, and in an hour which he knoweth not; and shall sunder him, and set him his portion with those who are not faithful. 47 And that servant who knew the will of his lord, and prepared not himself according to his will, shall be beaten with many 48 But he who knew not, and did that which was worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For every one to whom much is given, much will be required from him; and to whom much is committed, the more will they require at his hand. 49 FIRE have I come to send forth upon the earth, and I would that it already burned: 50 and I have a baptism (wherewith) to be baptized, and greatly am I pressed till it be completed.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I have: Matthew 20:17-22, Mark 10:32-38

and: Psalms 40:8, John 4:34, John 7:6-8, John 7:10, John 10:39-41, John 12:27, John 12:28, John 18:11, John 19:30, Acts 20:22

straitened: or, pained

Reciprocal: Psalms 18:36 - enlarged Zechariah 11:8 - loathed them Matthew 20:22 - baptized with the Matthew 26:46 - General Mark 10:38 - baptized with the Luke 9:51 - he stedfastly Luke 19:28 - he went Luke 22:15 - With desire I have desired John 13:31 - Now John 14:31 - Arise John 19:28 - Jesus Acts 18:5 - was Philippians 1:23 - in Hebrews 6:2 - the doctrine

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But I have a baptism to be baptized with,.... Not water baptism, for he had been baptized with that already; nor the baptism of the Spirit, which he had also received without measure; though the Ethiopic version reads it actively, "with which I shall baptize", referring doubtless to that; but the baptism of his sufferings is meant, which are compared to a baptism, because of the largeness and abundance of them; he was as it were immersed, or plunged into them; and which almost all interpreters observe on the text, and by which they confess the true import and primary signification of the word used; as in baptism, performed by immersion, the person is plunged into water, is covered with it, and continues awhile under it, and then is raised out of it, and which being once done, is done no more; so the sufferings of Christ were so many and large, that he was as it were covered with them, and he continued under them for a time, and under the power of death and the grave, when being raised from thence, he dies no more, death hath no more dominion over him. This baptism he "had", there was a necessity of his being baptized with it, on his Father's account; it was his will, his decree, and the command he enjoined him as Mediator; it was the portion he allotted him, and the cup he gave unto him: and on his own part, he obliged himself unto it, in the counsel and covenant of peace; for this purpose he came into this world, and had substituted himself in the room and stead of his people; and it was necessary on their part, for their sins could not be atoned for without sufferings, nor without the sufferings of Christ; moreover, the promises and prophecies of the Old Testament concerning them, made them necessary:

and how am I straitened until it be accomplished: these words express both the trouble and distress Christ was in, at the apprehension of his sufferings as man; which were like to the distress of persons, closely besieged by an enemy; or rather of a woman, whose time of travail draws nigh, when she dreads it, and yet longs to have it over: and likewise they signify, his restless desire to have them accomplished; not that he desired that Judas should betray him, or the Jews crucify him, as these were sins of theirs; nor merely his sufferings as such; but that thereby the justice of God might be satisfied, the law might be fulfilled, and the salvation of his people be obtained: and this eager desire of his, he had shown in various instances, and did show afterwards; as in his ready compliance with his Father's proposal in eternity; in his frequent appearances in human form before his incarnation; in sending one message after another, to give notice of his coming; in his willingness to be about his Father's business, as soon as possible; in rebuking Peter, when he would have dissuaded him from all thoughts of suffering: in going to Jerusalem on his own accord, in order to suffer there; in his earnest wish to eat the last passover with his disciples; in the joy that possessed him, when Judas was gone out, in order to betray him; in stopping in the midst of his sermon, lest he should overrun, or outslip the time of meeting him in the garden,

John 14:30 in his going thither, and willingly surrendering himself up into the hands of his enemies; and in cheerfully laying down his life: all which arose from the entire love he had for the persons he died for; and because it was his Father's will, and his glory was concerned herein, and his own glory also was advanced thereby; moreover, his death was the life of others, and the work required haste.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A baptism - See the notes at Matthew 20:22.

Am I straitened - How do I earnestly desire that it were passed! Since these sufferings “must” be endured, how anxious am I that the time should come! Such were the feelings of the Redeemer in view of his approaching dying hour. We may learn from this:

  1. That it is not improper to “feel deeply” at the prospect of dying. It is a sad, awful, terrible event; and it is impossible that we should look at it aright “without” feeling - scarcely without trembling.
  2. It is not improper to desire that the time should come, and that the day of our release should draw nigh, Philippians 1:23. To the Christian, death is but the entrance to life; and since the pains of death “must” be endured, and since they lead to heaven, it matters little how soon he passes through these sorrows, and rises to his eternal rest.



Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 50. But I have a baptism — The fire, though already kindled, cannot burn up till after the Jews have put me to death: then the Roman sword shall come, and the Spirit of judgment, burning, and purification shall be poured out.


 
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