But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
Parallel translations
- KJV But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!
- BSB But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
- NKJV But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am till it is accomplished!
- NASB But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
- NLT I have a terrible baptism of suffering ahead of me, and I am under a heavy burden until it is accomplished.
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- John 12:27–28“Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this time?’ But for this cause I came to this time.
- John 19:30When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, “It is finished.” He bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.
- John 7:6–8Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.
- John 4:34Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
- Mark 10:32–38They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going in front of them, and they were amazed; and those who followed were afraid. He again took the twelve, and began to tell them the things that were going to happen to him.
- Matt 20:17–22As Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them,
- Ps 40:8I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
- Acts 20:22Now, behold, I go bound by the Spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there;
- John 10:39–41They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand.
- John 7:10But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.
- John 18:11Jesus therefore said to Peter, “Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?”
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