Luke 12:50
But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!
KJV
βάπτισμα δὲ ἔχω βαπτισθῆναι, καὶ πῶς συνέχομαι ἕως ὅτου τελεσθῇ.
Greek NT
Baptismo autem habeo baptizari : et quomodo coarctor usque dum perficiatur ?
Vulgate
But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!
ASV
And I have a baptism wherewith I am to be baptized. And how am I straitened until it be accomplished?
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
βάπτισμα
baptisma
noun · 20×
βαπτίζω
baptizo
verb · 77×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
πῶς
pos
adverb · 104×
συνέχω
sunecho
verb · 12×
τελέω
teleo
verb · 28×
ἔχω
echo
verb · 707×
ἕως
eos
adverb · 145×
ὅστις
ostis
relative_pronoun · 146×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: ὅτου | WH/Treg/NIV: ὅτου | RP: οὗ
- ὅτου — SBLGNT
- ὅτου — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- οὗ — Robinson-Pierpont
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Historic Christian voices
10 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Catechism of the Catholic Church · 4 passages
§536The baptism of Jesus is on his part the acceptance and inauguration of his mission as God's suffering Servant. He allows himself to be numbered among sinners; he is already "the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world".232 Already he is anticipating the "baptism" of his bloody death.233 Already he is coming to "fulfil all righteousness", that is, he is submitting himse…
§607The desire to embrace his Father's plan of redeeming love inspired Jesus' whole life,418 for his redemptive passion was the very reason for his Incarnation. and so he asked, "and what shall I say? 'Father, save me from this hour'? No, for this purpose I have come to this hour."419 and again, "Shall I not drink the cup which the Father has given me?"420 From the cross, just befo…
§1225In his Passover Christ opened to all men the fountain of Baptism. He had already spoken of his Passion, which he was about to suffer in Jerusalem, as a "Baptism" with which he had to be baptized.22 The blood and water that flowed from the pierced side of the crucified Jesus are types of Baptism and the Eucharist, the sacraments of new life.23 From then on, it is possible "to be…
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1. The Work is Taken Up After a Violent Interruption, Which Has Driven the Writer from Alexandria. He Addresses Himself to It Again, with Thanks for His Deliverance, and Prayer for Guidance. When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the need…
We confess one baptism for the remission of sins and for life eternal. For baptism declares the Lord's death. We are indeed buried with the Lord through baptism Colossians 2:12, as says the divine Apostle. So then, as our Lord died once for all, we also must be baptized once for all, and baptized according to the Word of the Lord, In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and …
Cross-references
- John 4:34 — Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
- John 7:6 — Then Jesus said unto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.
- John 12:27 — Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
- John 13:31 — Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
- John 14:31 — But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
- John 19:28 — After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
- John 19:30 — When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
- Luke 19:28 — And when he had thus spoken, he went before, ascending up to Jerusalem.
- Luke 22:15 — And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:
- Mark 10:32 — And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus went before them: and they were amazed; and as they followed, they were afraid. And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them what thin
- Mark 10:38 — But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?
- Matt 20:22 — But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able
- Phil 1:23 — For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: