Luke 12:50 But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished! Those who maintain that the crucifixion was an afterthought in the mind of Christ: that no vision of it clouded His pathway, and no place was assigned for it when He began first to preach and to teach, have read those narratives to very little purpose. Holman Hunt, the modern " evangelist of art," was much nearer the truth on this matter when he painted his celebrated picture, " The Shadow of Death," in which he clearly reveals his opinion that, whilst yet a horny-handed workman in the obscure carpenter's shop at Nazareth, making yokes and ploughs for the husbandmen of Galilee, the shadow of the coming cross fell upon the pathway of Christ, and gave an unwonted solemnity to a young manhood, in all else so natural. (J. Cuttell.) 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! |
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