But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!
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Gill's Exposition
Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth?.... To set up a temporal kingdom, in great pomp, and outward peace and tranquility? Christ came to make peace with God for men, and to give the Gospel…
Barnes' Notes
A baptism - See the notes at Mat 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…
Adam Clarke
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…
Here is, I. Peter's question, which he put to Christ upon occasion of the foregoing parable (Luk 12:41): "Lord, speakest thou this parable to us that are thy constant followers, to us that are…
Cambridge Bible
a baptism to be baptized with Mat 20:22.
how am I straitened i.e. How heavy is the burden that rests upon me; how vast are the obstacles through which I have to press onwards.
It is the same spirit…
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