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Verse 50. _BUT I HAVE A BAPTISM_] The fire, though already kindled,
cannot _burn up_ till after the Jews have put me to death: then the
Roman _sword_ shall come, and the _Spirit_ of judgment, burning,...
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A BAPTISM - See the notes at Matthew 20:22.
AM I STRAITENED - How do I earnestly desire that it were passed! Since
these sufferings “must” be endured, how anxious am I that the time
should come! Such...
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CHAPTER 12
_ 1. Warning Against Hypocrisy. (Luke 12:1)_
2. Encouragements. (Luke 12:4)
3. Warning Against Covetousness. (Luke 12:15)
4. Warning Against Anxiety. ...
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SIGNS OF THE TIMES. For parallels see below. Jesus is oppressed with
the thought of the future till it is accomplished.
LUKE 12:49 F. Lk. only. Fire is what Jesus has come to cast on the
earth (_cf._...
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Jesus said, "I came to cast fire upon the earth. And what do I wish?
Would that it were already kindled! There is an experience through
which I must pass; and now I am under tension until it is
accomp...
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THE CREED OF COURAGE AND OF TRUST (Luke 12:1-12)...
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_a baptism to be baptized with_ Matthew 20:22.
_how am I straitened_ i.e. How heavy is the burden that rests upon me;
how vast are the obstacles through which I have to press onwards.
It is the same...
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Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31_. Rejected by the Samaritans. A lesson of
Tolerance._
This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called
the departure for the final conflict, and is identical...
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ΒΆΠΤΙΣΜΑ … ΒΑΠΤΙΣΘΗ͂ΝΑΙ. Matthew 20:22; Romans
6:3.
ΠΩ͂Σ ΣΥΝΈΧΟΜΑΙ. Comp. συνεχομένη πυρετῷ,
Luke 4:38. O how heavy is the burden that rests upon me; how vast are
the obstacles through which I have to...
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LESSONS OF TRUSTFULNESS (22–32), ALMSGIVING (33, 34), AND FAITHFUL
WATCHFULNESS (35–48). THE SEARCHING EFFECT OF CHRIST’S WORK
(49–53)...
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CHAPS. Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31
This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the
departure for the final conflict, and is identical with the journey
(probably to the Feast of the...
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Ver 49. I am come to send fire on the earth, and what will I, if it be
already kindled? 50. But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how
am I straightened till it be accomplished! 51. Suppose you...
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ΒΑΠΤΙΣΘΉΝΑΙ _aor. pass. inf. от_ ΒΑΠΤΊΖΩ (G907)
крестить; в переносном смысле
говорится о потрясении перед лицом
катастрофы (Marshall; Stein). Эпэкз. _inf._
объясняет слово ΒΆΠΤΙΣΜΑ (G908).
ΣΥΝΈΧΟΜΑΙ...
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DISCOURSE: 1531
THE BLOODY BAPTISM OF OUR LORD
Luke 12:50. _I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I
straitened till it be accomplished!_
ANY one who understands the true nature of Christia...
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BUT I HAVE A BAPTISM, &C.— _"But I have_ indeed, in the mean time;
_a_ most dreadful _baptism to be baptized with,_ and know that I shall
shortly be baptized as it were in blood, and plunged in the mo...
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APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS
_The Mission of the Son of Man
Scripture_
Luke 12:49-53 I came to cast fire upon the earth; and what do I
desire, if it is already kindled? 50 But I have a baptism to be
baptized...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 4
Attitudes That Aid Alertness (Luke 12:49-59)
49 I came to cast fire upon the earth; and would that it were already
kindled!50I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how...
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But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened
till it be accomplished!
BUT I HAVE A BAPTISM TO BE BAPTIZED WITH - clearly His own bloody
baptism, which had first to take place....
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39 As most of the houses in Palestine were built of sun-dried clay, or
adobe, a thief could best effect an entrance by digging his way
through the walls. They literally burrowed their way into a house...
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THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES. THE RICH FOOL
1-12. Jesus warns His followers against Pharisaic hypocrisy, and
exhorts them to be courageous in face of opposition. This speech is
not unsuitable to the co...
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THE STRIFE THAT THE GOSPEL WILL PRODUCE. In different connexions in
Mt....
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See on Matthew 20:22 = Mark 10:38. A BAPTISM] i.e. Christ's Passion.
STRAITENED] i.e. afflicted, oppressed.
51-53. See on Matthew 10:34....
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LUKE’S GOOD NEWS
LUKE
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 12
JESUS WARNS AND ENCOURAGES HIS *DISCIPLES 12:1-12
1 WARNING ABOUT THE FALSE LIVES OF THE *PHARISEES 12:1-3
V1 Thousands of people had gathered. T...
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I HAVE A BAPTISM TO BE BAPTIZED WITH. — Here we have a point of
contact with the words spoken to the sons of Zebedee. (See Notes on
Matthew 20:22, and Mark 10:38.) The baptism of which the Lord now
sp...
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βάπτισμα : before the fire can be effectually kindled there
must come for the kindler His own baptism of blood, of which therefore
Jesus naturally speaks here with emotion. πῶς συνέχομαι,
how am I pre...
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_Not peace but division_ (Matthew 10:34-36). This section is
introduced by no connecting particle. Yet there is a certain affinity
of thought. Strict fidelity demanded under penalties, but fidelity no...
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THE GREAT DIVIDER
Luke 12:49-59
As Prometheus, in the old Greek fable, brought fire from above in a
reed, so Christ brought the fire of the Holy Spirit in the frail
lantern of His humanity. But, firs...
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Knowing that the enmity of the rulers against Him would proceed also
against His disciples, He told them not to be afraid of those who kill
the body, remembering ever their Father's care, as revealed...
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_I am to be baptized, with troubles and sufferings. --- And how am I
straitened? &c. not with fear, but with an earnest desire of
suffering. (Witham)_...
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THE FIERY BAPTISM
Luke 12:49-53. _“I came to send fire on the earth, and what do I
wish if it is already kindled?”_ This is none other than the fiery
baptism of Pentecost, which Jesus came to send on...
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4 _th. To the Apostles: Luke 12:41-53_.
Up till now, Jesus had been speaking to all believers; from this
point, on occasion of a question put by Peter, He addresses the
apostles in particular, and rem...
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After having thus followed the natural course of the conversation,
Jesus returns to the thought from which it had started, the vanity of
earthly goods. He shows how this truth directly applies to the...
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(49) I am come to send fire on the earth, and what will I, if it be
already kindled? (50) But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and
how am I straitened till it be accomplished? (51) Suppose ye tha...
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The ninth chapter opens with the mission not the setting apart, but
the circuit of the twelve sent out by the Lord, who therein was
working after a fresh sort. He communicates power in grace to men,
c...
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_CHRISTS BAPTISM OF SUFFERING_
‘I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till
it be accomplished.’
Luke 12:50
I. THE WHOLE STRUCTURE of this sentence is in exact keeping with t...
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50._But I have a baptism to be baptized with. _By these words our Lord
asserts that there remains nothing but his last act, that by his death
he may consecrate the renovation of the world. For since t...
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chapter 12 puts the disciples into this place of testimony by the
power of the Holy Ghost, and with the world opposed to them, after the
Lord's departure. It is the word and the Holy Ghost, instead of...
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BUT I HAVE A BAPTISM TO BE BAPTIZED WITH,.... Not water baptism, for
he had been baptized with that already; nor the baptism of the Spirit,
which he had also received without measure; though the Ethio...
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But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till
it be accomplished!
Ver. 50. _And how am I staitened_] This painful preconceit of his
passion was a part of our Saviour's passio...
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_I am come to send fire on earth_ Our Lord concludes his charge to his
disciples with foretelling the divisions that should be occasioned by
his gospel. See on Matthew 10:34. As if he had said, After...
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A BAPTISM; extreme suffering which he must pass through before the
gospel could be fully published.
STRAITENED; oppressed in spirit, in view of the sufferings which were
before him....
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The dissension caused by the Gospel:...
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BUT I HAVE A BAPTISM TO BE BAPTIZED WITH; AND HOW AM I STRAITENED TILL
IT BE ACCOMPLISHED!...
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THE PEOPLE WARNED AGAINST FALSE LEADERS
(vs.1-12)
At a time when the crowd was extremely large, the Lord addressed His
disciples "first of all," warning them to beware of the leaven of the
Pharisees,...
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STRAITENED:
Or, pained...
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41-53 All are to take to themselves what Christ says in his word, and
to inquire concerning it. No one is left so ignorant as not to know
many things to be wrong which he does, and many things to be...
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This baptism, spoken of here by our Saviour, is the same mentioned
MATTHEW 20:22,23, and can be understood of nothing but his passion,
the accomplishment of which he hints us was to be before the fire...
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Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I
And to this He refers when He says, "And I have another baptism to be
baptized with, and I hasten eagerly towards it."[269]
Tertullian On Baptism
, to wit; concerni...
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Luke 12:50 But G1161 have G2192 (G5719) baptism G908 baptized G907
(G5683) and G2532 how G4459 distressed...
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“But I have a baptism (‘an overwhelming') to be baptised with, and
how am I straitened till it be accomplished!”
However, if that fire is to be effective redeemingly something
extraordinary will be re...
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THE FUTURE WILL NOT ALL BE ROSY (12:49-53).
As Jesus contemplates the thought of the punishments which will be
inflicted on the various unfaithful servants, it carries His thought
forward on to what n...
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THIS division of the Gospel of Luke, embracing nearly one third of the
whole, contains for the most part matter peculiar to this Evangelist.
A number of the incidents probably belong to an earlier per...
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CONTENTS. A continuation of the discourse. Luke 12:35-48 contain
exhortations to _watchfulness;_ the difference between the faithful
and unfaithful servant suggests a difficulty in the way of
faithful...
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Luke 12:50. BUT. Before my wish will be fulfilled.
I HAVE A BAPTISM, etc. Our Lord here refers to His own sufferings,
and especially to His death. We may find in the figure either a
reference to His...
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Luke 12:49-53. Having shown the awful difference between the faithful
and unfaithful servant, and the great responsibility resting upon His
disciples, our Lord points out that the difference begins he...
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I HAVE A BAPTISM
(βαπτισμα δε εχω). Once again Jesus will call his baptism
the baptism of blood and will challenge James and John to it (Mark
10:32; Matthew 20:22). So here. "Having used the metapho...
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Luke 12:50
I. Most persons know something of the feeling of suspens and anxious
curiosity, when they are looking forward to anything very serious,
anything which they think will greatly affect their h...
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CONTENTS: Jesus warns of leaven of the Pharisees. Parable of the rich
fool. Parable of the second coming. Parable of the steward and his
servants. Christ, the divider of men.
CHARACTERS: Jesus, disci...
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Luke 12:1. _There were gathered together an innumerable multitude of
people._ The Greek is myriads, or ten thousands of people.
Luke 12:5. _Power to cast into hell._ The Greek is Gehenna, as on
Isaiah...
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I HAVE A BAPTISM TO RECEIVE. This is symbolic of the events presented
in the act of the Cross. HOW DISTRESSED I AM. He anticipated the heavy
load of the Crucifixion. Compare Hebrews 5:7-10....
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_I have a baptism to be baptized with--_
INTENSITY IN CHRISTIAN SERVICE
I. OF THIS INTENSITY CHRIST HIMSELF WAS THE PERFECT EXAMPLE. Fervour
reached white heat in the Son of Man, and the service of t...
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LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 12:49 CAST FIRE ON THE EARTH probably refers to
the division between believers and unbelievers (vv. Luke 12:51). I
have a bapti
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CHAPTER 12 VER. 1. _In the mean time when there were gathered together
an innumerable multitude of people._ The Greek has "the myriads of the
multitude." A myriad contains exactly ten thousand, and is...
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_But I have a baptism to be baptized with._ The Arabic says, "I have a
baptism, and I shall be baptized with it:" That is, By the decree of
God and of My own will and determination I owe (debeo) to be...
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VER. 42. _And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise
steward whom his lord shall set over his household to give them their
portion of food in due season?_ Christ replied to Peter that He sp...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Luke 12:49. I AM COME.—Rather, “I came” (R.V.). The tense refers
to the historical fact of the Incarnation. Note in this the
consciousness of pre-existence, as also of a heavenly orig...
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EXPOSITION
LUKE 12:1
_The Lord_,_ after leaving the Pharisee_'_s house_,_ speaks at great
length to a numerous crowd waiting for him_,_ addressing his words
principally to his own disciples. _The for...
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Shall we turn in our Bibles to Luke's gospel, chapter 12.
We are dealing with the final month in the ministry of Jesus. He has
returned to Jerusalem. He will soon be leaving Jerusalem to go down to
th...
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Acts 20:22; John 10:39; John 12:27; John 12:28; John 18:11;...
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Am I straitened. See on ch. Luke 4:38, and compare 2 Corinthians 5:14;
Philippians 1:23. Wyc., constrained....
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But I have a baptism to be baptized with — I must suffer first,
before I can set up my kingdom. And how I long to fight my way through
all!...