Luke 22:42

Jesus asks the Father to remove the cup, yet submits, 'not my will, but yours, be done.' It is the supreme model of obedient surrender.

Cross-references · 16

• 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.
• Matt 26:39He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”
• Matt 26:42Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cup can’t pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done.”
• Mark 14:36He said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me. However, not what I desire, but what you desire.”
• Ps 40:8I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
• 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?”
• Matt 20:22But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” They said to him, “We are able.”
• John 5:30I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.
• John 6:38For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
• Heb 10:7–10Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.’”
• John 4:34Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
• Luke 22:17–20He received a cup, and when he had given thanks, he said, “Take this, and share it among yourselves,
• Isa 51:22Thus says your Lord Yahweh, your God who pleads the cause of his people, “Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath. You will not drink it any more:
• Matt 26:44He left them again, went away, and prayed a third time, saying the same words.
• Jer 25:15For Yahweh, the God of Israel, says to me: “take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.
• Isa 51:17Awake, awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from Yahweh’s hand the cup of his wrath. You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.

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