Verse 50
50. But . . . a baptism, c.—clearly, His own bloody baptism, first to take place.
how . . . straitened—not, "how do I long for its accomplishment," as many understand it, thus making it but a repetition of :- but "what a pressure of spirit is upon Me."
till it be accomplished—till it be over. Before a promiscuous audience, such obscure language was fit on a theme like this; but oh, what surges of mysterious emotion in the view of what was now so near at hand does it reveal!
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