But I have an immersion to experience [i.e., overwhelming suffering to undergo. See Mark 10:38-39], and what stress I am under until it happens!
Luke 22:15 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) And He said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover meal with you [men] before I suffer [i.e., torture and death]. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And He said to them, I have earnestly and intensely desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer; American Standard Version (1901) And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer: Common English Bible He said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. Catholic Public Domain Version And he said to them: "With longing have I desired to eat this Passover with you, before I suffer. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And he said to them: With desire I have desired to eat this pasch with you, before I suffer. |
But I have an immersion to experience [i.e., overwhelming suffering to undergo. See Mark 10:38-39], and what stress I am under until it happens!
And when the time came [for the Passover meal], Jesus reclined with His apostles [at the table]. [Note: See Matt. 23:6].
For I tell you, I will not eat it again until [I do so when] it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God [See Matt. 26:29].”
Now it was before the Passover Festival [was to begin] and Jesus knew that the time had come for Him to leave this world and return to the Father. Those [living] in the world, whom He had loved, and who were His own [disciples], He continued to love [dearly] to the very end [i.e., of His life on earth].
After saying these things, Jesus looked up to heaven and said, “Father, the time has come; honor your Son so that your Son may honor you.
Jesus answered them; “My food is doing what God, who sent me, wants me to, and accomplishing His work.