| Francis William Upham - 1881 - 398 pagina’s
...for the sin of the world. The Cross was the goal of his desire. " I have," He said, " a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished." The sameness of the ways and manners of the Jews among whom he lived, and his singleness of aim, gave such... | |
| 1883 - 558 pagina’s
...occasional glimpses given us of the strong recoil of his nature from anticipated pain. At one time he said : "I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished." His prophetic eye already saw the billows of sorrow rolling up their dark mass... | |
| George Dawson - 1883 - 396 pagina’s
...the full and final glorification of our nature. With his death of agony and shame before him,. Christ said — " I have a baptism to be baptized with ; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished ! " And may not we, if He could feel thus with regard to the painful death of the... | |
| Alexander McKenzie - 1883 - 330 pagina’s
...world. But his eye and his heart have been always on something beyond. Standing among his miracles, he said : " I have a baptism to be baptized with ; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished." It was to redeem men that he came ; to give his life a ransom for many. " Christ... | |
| Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - 1883 - 374 pagina’s
...they followed they were afraid." 2 Did not His words convey an expression of mental agony, as when He said: " I have a baptism to be baptized with ; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished ! " s i Luke xviii. 31. " Mark x. 32. s Luke xii. 50. This mental foresight was... | |
| F G. Marchant - 1883 - 422 pagina’s
...Jowxm. It is folly that braves the field to which duty makes no call. True courage — courage that said, " I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished," said also, " When ye pray, say .... Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us... | |
| Atonement - 1883 - 288 pagina’s
...manger of Bethlehem to the cross of Calvary was freely and deliberately taken. " I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!" The Scriptures assert that the peculiar value of Christ's sufferings arose from His Divine nature. The... | |
| Robert Rhoden Meredith - 1883 - 136 pagina’s
...Christ." The word translated "constrained" is the same which our Lord employs, "I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!" The sight of his companions and the information they imparted concerning the triumphs of the gospel, fanned... | |
| Sabine Baring Gould - 1884 - 116 pagina’s
...Zebedee, " Are ye able to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with ?" that baptism of which He said, " I have a baptism to be baptized with ; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished." (S. Luke xii. 50). From bands, and feet, and brow, His blood has streamed over... | |
| Henry H. Bourn - 1885 - 408 pagina’s
...increased as the hour of His departure drew near. In anticipating the future, He, on one occasion, said, "I have a baptism to be baptized with ; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished \" (Luke xii. 50.) It is impossible for us to enter into His feelings, when, in... | |
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