Luke 12:50 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵⁰But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!

Luke 12:50 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.
John 12:27-28
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. …
Matthew 20:17-22
And Jesus going up to Jerusalem took the twelve disciples apart in the way, and said unto them, …
Psalms 40:8
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
John 4:34
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 41-53)

Here is, I. Peter’s question, which he put to Christ upon occasion of the foregoing parable (Luke 12:41): “ Lord, speakest thou this parable to us that are thy constant followers, to us that are ministers, or also to all that come to be taught by thee, to all the hearers, and in them to all Christians?” Peter was now, as often, spokesman for the disciples. We have reason to bless God that there ar…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 50)

49-53. to send--cast. fire--“the higher spiritual element of life which Jesus came to introduce into this earth (compare Mt 3:11), with reference to its mighty effects in quickening all that is akin to it and destroying all that is opposed. To cause this element of life to take up its abode on earth, and wholly to pervade human hearts with its warmth, was the lofty destiny of the Redeemer” [Olshau…