...this. Every step he took from Bethlehem to Calvary, did but unfold the willingness of Jesus to die. " I have a baptism to be baptised with, and how am I straitened until it be accomplished." Oh how amazing was the love of Jesus ! This, this was the secret why he...

...his divine Master, and with something of the feelings of that divine Master himself, when he said, " I have a baptism to be baptised with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished :" his feelings must be, I have a message to deliver, and how am I straitened till...

...extremities ! " I am come to send fire on the earth ; and what will I, if it be already kindled ? But I have a baptism to be baptised with ; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished." Fearlessly He flung the Torch on earth and saw the first bursting forth of the...

...have been founded by both Tertullian and Cyprian upon our Lord's expression, (Luke xii. 50,) " But I have a Baptism to be baptised with, and how am I straitened till it be accomplished !" The second was that of "Catechumens, who, whilst they were preparing for Baptism...

...emphasis on one occasion, was but the expression of the inflexible and unvarying purpose of his mind — "I have a baptism to be baptised with, and how am I straitened until it be accomplished!" Jesus was not a reluctant victim. No monarch ever yet ascended a throne...

...passion. Take two or three sentences which fell from his own precious lips — see Luke xii. 50— "I have a baptism to be baptised with— and how am I straightened (or pained) until it be accomplished !" What baptism was that ? It was that flood of agony...

...from eternity. Its developement brought the Son of God from heaven to earth, and led him to exclaim, I have a baptism to be baptised with, and how am I straitened until it be accomplished ! And it is now the theme of the loftiest ascriptions of praise in heaven,...

...baptism that I am baptised with ?" On another occasion, he feelingly and forebodingly exclaimed, " I have a baptism to be baptised with, and how am I straitened until it be accomplished ?" And again, when the all-important work which his Father had given him to...

...baptism that I am baptised with ?" On another occasion, he feelingly and forebodingly exclaimed, " I have a baptism to be baptised with, and how am I straitened until it be accomplished ?" And again, when the all-important work which his Father had given him to...

...then to Calvary, to see the debt paid. This is Christ's baptism, to which he referred, when he said, " I have a baptism to be baptised with, and how am I straitened (shut up) until it be accomplished." Referring to that cup of sorrow which he drank to the very dregs....