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Matthew 20:22

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Jesus answered, ‘You don’t know what you’re asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink? ’   , ‘We are able,’ they said to him.

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‘Father, if you are willing, take this cup   away from me #– #nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.’


Again, a second time, he went away and prayed, ‘My Father, if this   cannot pass   unless I drink it, your will be done.’


At that, Jesus said to Peter, ‘Put your sword away! Am I not to drink the cup   the Father has given me? ’


And he said, ‘Abba,   Father!   All things are possible   for you. Take this cup   away from me. Nevertheless, not what I will, but what you will.’


Going a little further,  he fell face down and prayed, ‘My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.’


In the same way the Spirit also helps us in our weakness, because we do not know what to pray for as we should,  but the Spirit himself intercedes for us  , with inexpressible groanings.


This is what your Lord says – the Lord, even your God, who defends his people   – ‘Look, I have removed from your hand the cup that causes staggering; that goblet, the cup of my fury. You will never drink it again.


You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.


But I have a baptism to undergo,   and how it consumes   me until it is finished!


For this is what the Lord says: ‘If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, can you possibly remain unpunished? You will not remain unpunished, for you must drink it too.


But all this has happened so that the writings of the prophets   would be fulfilled.’ Then all the disciples  deserted him and ran away.


Pride comes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.


‘Even if I have to die with you,’ Peter told him, ‘I will never deny you,’ and all the disciples said the same thing.


Wake yourself, wake yourself up! Stand up, Jerusalem, you who have drunk the cup of his fury from the Lord’s hand; you who have drunk the goblet to the dregs – the cup that causes people to stagger.





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