Matthew 20:22
Greek Text— Matthew 20:22But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” They said to him, “We are able.”
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A man’s pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.
with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:
But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.
For it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.
And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”
This is the boldness which we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.
When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.
I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.
Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.
For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, yes, the death of the cross.
For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.
so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
Also Yahweh was angry with me for your sakes, saying, “You also shall not go in there.
He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh’s. He has set the world on them.
He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.
Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
I delight to do your will, my God. Yes, your law is within my heart.”
You have shown your people hard things. You have made us drink the wine that makes us stagger.
Then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;
Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.
Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.
Then tell them, ‘Yahweh says, “Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.
For Yahweh, the God of Israel, says to me: “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from my hand, and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it.
Yahweh has taken away your judgments. He has thrown out your enemy. The King of Israel, Yahweh, is among you. You will not be afraid of evil any more.
Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cup can’t pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done.”
But Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”
saying, “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.”
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
Jesus therefore said to Peter, “Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?”
When he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, “The Lord’s will be done.”
Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.
Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
The great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
Return to her just as she returned, and repay her double as she did, and according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to her double.
The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”
They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.
The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear. I was not rebellious. I have not turned back.
Your Lord Yahweh, your God who pleads the cause of his people, says, “Behold, I have taken out of your hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath. You will not drink it any more.
“The Lord Yahweh says: ‘You will drink of your sister’s cup, which is deep and large. You will be ridiculed and held in derision. It contains much.
You will even drink it and drain it out. You will gnaw the broken pieces of it, and will tear your breasts; for I have spoken it,’ says the Lord Yahweh.
For as you have drunk on my holy mountain, so will all the nations drink continually. Yes, they will drink, swallow down, and will be as though they had not been.
The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”
Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’
He went forward a little, fell on his face, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass away from me; nevertheless, not what I desire, but what you desire.”
They came to a place which was named Gethsemane. He said to his disciples, “Sit here, while I pray.”
He said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me. However, not what I desire, but what you desire.”
Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, “Let’s go also, that we may die with him.”
I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever:
But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let’s go from here.
Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,
You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.
Or else what will they do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead aren’t raised at all, why then are they baptized for the dead?
But Yahweh was angry with me because of you, and didn’t listen to me. Yahweh said to me, “That is enough! Speak no more to me of this matter.
King Solomon answered his mother, “Why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also; for he is my elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.”
The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars.
He will drink of the brook on the way; therefore he will lift up his head.
Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.
Awake, awake! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk from Yahweh’s hand the cup of his wrath. You have drunken the bowl of the cup of staggering, and drained it.
For Yahweh says: “Behold, they to whom it didn’t pertain to drink of the cup will certainly drink; and are you he who will altogether go unpunished? You won’t go unpunished, but you will surely drink.
But I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
He said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!”
he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.
Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you.” All of the disciples also said likewise.
But all this has happened that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him and fled.