Matthew 20:22

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.

Ye know not

Mark 10:38

Romans 8:26

James 4:3

The cup

Baptized with the

Mark 10:39

Luke 12:50

We

Matthew 26:35

Proverbs 16:18

General references

Luke 9:46

Luke 22:24

Bible References

Ye know not

But Jesus said to them, You do not know what you ask. Can you drink of the cup that I drink of, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?

Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

You ask and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it upon your lusts.

The cup

And He went a little further and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will.

The earth and all its people are melting away; I hold up its pillars. Selah.

For so says Jehovah, the God of Israel, to me, Take the wine cup of this wrath at My hand, and cause all the nations to whom I shall send you to drink it.

And He said, Abba, Father, all things are possible to You. Take away this cup from Me. Yet not what I will, but what You will.

saying, Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me. Yet not My will, but Yours be done.

Then Jesus said to Peter, Put up your sword into the sheath. The cup which My Father has given Me, shall I not drink it?

Baptized with the

And they said to Him, We can. And Jesus said to them, You shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of, and with the baptism that I am baptized with you shall be baptized.

But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how I am pressed down until it is accomplished!

We

Peter said to Him, though I should die with You, yet I will not deny You. All the disciples also said the same.

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

General references

And an argument came in among them, who might be the greater of them.

And there was also a dispute among them as to which of them seems to be greater.