Homiletic Review Luke 12:50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished! Christ's eagerness for the consummation of His sacrificial mission sublimely pathetic and heroic. I. The cross loomed up in His thought with increasing vividness and more absorbing interest toward the last. II. Eager for the suspense to be changed to certainty. For the Father's glory to be magnified. For the ending of the curse, and the beginning of the blessing. III. Eager to make the supreme proof of His love to sinners, and to see the result. "I, if I be lifted up," etc. IV. Eager to return by the gateway of the cross to the Father's bosom. (Homiletic Review.) Parallel Verses KJV: But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!WEB: But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished! |
    |