Luke 12:50

I have a baptism ¹  to undergo, ²  and how distressed I am until it is finished!

Ps 40:8; Mt 20:17-22; Mr 10:32-38; Joh 4:34; Joh 7:6-8,10; Joh 10:39-41; Joh 12:27,28; Joh 18:11; Joh 19:30; Ac 20:22

¹ sn The figure of the baptism is variously interpreted, as some see a reference (1) to martyrdom or (2) to inundation with God’s judgment. The OT background, however, suggests the latter sense: Jesus is about to be uniquely inundated with God’s judgment as he is rejected, persecuted, and killed (Ps 18:4, 16; 42:7; 69:1-2; Isa 8:7-8; 30:27-28; Jonah 2:3-6).

² tn Grk “to be baptized with.”