Mark 10:38 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 10:38

“You do not know what you are asking,” Jesus replied. “Can you drink the cup I will drink, or be baptized with the baptism I will undergo?”

BSB

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ASV

But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink the cup that I drink? or to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?

KJV

But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?

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Commentary

1 voice

Irenaeus

Against Heresies Book I (202)

They maintain that those who have attained to perfect knowledge must of necessity be regenerated into that power which is above all. For it is otherwise impossible to find admittance within the Pleroma, since this [regeneration] it is which leads them down into the depths of Bythus. For the baptism instituted by the visible Jesus was for the remission of sins, but the redemption brought in by that Christ who descended upon Him, was for perfection; and they allege that the former is animal, but the latter spiritual.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1857)

Let us mark in this passage, the ignorance of our Lord's disciples . We find James and John petitioning for the first places in the kingdom of glory. We find them confidently declaring their ability to drink of their Master's cup and be baptized with their Master's baptism. In spite of all the plain warnings of our Lord, they clung obstinately to the belief that Christ's kingdom on earth was immediately going to appear. Notwithstanding their many shortcomings in Christ's service, they had no misgivings as to their power to endure any thing which might come upon them.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Here it is the cup of suffering. and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?--(Compare for the language, Ps 42:7). The object of this question seems to have been to try how far those two men were capable of the dignity to which they aspired and this on the principle that he who is able to suffer most for His sake will be the nearest to Him in His kingdom.

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Original language & word study

23 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Ὁ	Ho	<the>	G3588 →
δὲ	de	And	G1161 →
Ἰησοῦς	Iēsous	Jesus	G2424 →
εἶπεν	eipen	said	G2036 →
αὐτοῖς·	autois	to them;	G846 →
οὐκ	ouk	Not	G3756 →
οἴδατε	oidate	you know
τί	ti	what	G5101 →
αἰτεῖσθε.	aiteisthe	you ask.	G154 →
δύνασθε	dunasthe	Are you able	G1410 →
πιεῖν	piein	to drink	G4095 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
ποτήριον	potērion	cup	G4221 →
ὃ	ho	which	G3739 →
ἐγὼ	egō	I myself	G1473 →
πίνω	pinō	drink	G4095 →
ἢ	ē	or	G2228 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
βάπτισμα	baptisma	baptism	G908 →
ὃ	ho	which	G3739 →
ἐγὼ	egō	I myself	G1473 →
βαπτίζομαι	baptizomai	am baptized	G907 →
βαπτισθῆναι;	baptisthēnai	to be baptized [with]?	G907 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
James 4:3
And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.
leads to
- 1 John 5:14
  And this is the confidence that we have before Him: If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.
- 1 John 3:22
  and we will receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight.
- James 1:6–7
  But he must ask in faith, without doubting, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.
- James 4:1
  What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
Through
Psalms 75:8
For a cup is in the hand of the LORD, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours from His cup, and all the wicked of the earth drink it down to the…
leads to
- Job 21:20
  Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.
- Jeremiah 25:15
  This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from My hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink…
- Psalms 11:6
  On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.
- Revelation 16:19
  The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. And God remembered Babylon the great and gave her the cup of the wine of the fury of His…