Luke 12:50
Good News Translation
I have a baptism to receive, and how distressed I am until it is over!

New Revised Standard Version
I have a baptism with which to be baptized, and what stress I am under until it is completed!

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.

New American Bible
There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished!

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I have a baptism wherewith I am to be baptized. And how am I straitened until it be accomplished?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I have a baptism wherewith I am to be baptized. And how am I straitened until it be accomplished?

I have.

Matthew 20:17-22 And Jesus going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples apart and said to them: . . .

Mark 10:32-38 And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem: and Jesus went before them. And they were astonished and following were afraid. And taking again the twelve, he began to tell them the things that should befall him. . . .

and.

Psalm 40:8 That I should do thy will: O my God, I have desired it, and thy law in the midst of my heart.

John 4:34 Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, that I may perfect his work.

John 7:6-8,10 Then Jesus said to them: My time is not yet come; but your time is always ready. . . .

John 10:39-41 They sought therefore to take him: and he escaped out of their hands. . . .

John 12:27,28 Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But for this cause I came unto this hour. . . .

John 18:11 Jesus therefore said to Peter: Put up thy sword into the scabbard. The chalice which my father hath given me, shall I not drink it?

John 19:30 Jesus therefore, when he had taken the vinegar, said: It is consummated. And bowing his head, he gave up the ghost.

Acts 20:22 And now, behold, being bound in the spirit, I go to Jerusalem: not knowing the things which shall befall me there:

straitened.

Context
Not Peace, But Division
49I am come to cast fire on the earth. And what will I, but that it be kindled? 50And I have a baptism wherewith I am to be baptized. And how am I straitened until it be accomplished? 51Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.…
Cross References
Matthew 3:6
And were baptized by him in the Jordan, confessing their sins.

Mark 10:38
And Jesus said to them: You know not what you ask. Can you drink of the chalice that I drink of or be baptized with the baptism wherewith I am baptized?

Luke 12:49
I am come to cast fire on the earth. And what will I, but that it be kindled?

Luke 12:49
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