Is anything too hard for the Lord? No! I will come again in the spring when I said I would. And your wife Sarah will have a son.”
Mark 14:36 - Easy To Read Version Jesus prayed, “Abba, {\cf2\super [206]} Father! You can do all things. Let me not have this cup {\cf2\super [207]} \{of suffering\}. But do what you want, not what I want.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And He was saying, Abba, [which means] Father, everything is possible for You. Take away this cup from Me; yet not what I will, but what You [will]. American Standard Version (1901) And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; remove this cup from me: howbeit not what I will, but what thou wilt. Common English Bible He said, “Abba, Father, for you all things are possible. Take this cup of suffering away from me. However—not what I want but what you want.” Catholic Public Domain Version And he said: "Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Take this chalice from me. But let it be, not as I will, but as you will." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And he saith: Abba, Father, all things are possible to thee: remove this chalice from me; but not what I will, but what thou wilt. |
Is anything too hard for the Lord? No! I will come again in the spring when I said I would. And your wife Sarah will have a son.”
“Jeremiah, I am the Lord. I am the God of every person on the earth. Jeremiah, you know that nothing is impossible for me.”
Then Jesus walked a little farther away from them. Jesus fell to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, don’t give me this cup {\cf2\super [406]} \{of suffering\}. But do what you want, not what I want.”
Then Jesus went away a second time and prayed, “My Father, if it is not possible for this \{painful\} thing to be taken from me, and if I must do it, then I pray that what you want will be done.”
Jesus looked at the followers and said, “This is something that people cannot do themselves. It must come from God. God can do all things.”
Then Jesus went back to his followers. He found them sleeping. He said to Peter, “Simon, why are you sleeping? You could not stay awake with me for one hour?
“Now I am very troubled. What should I say? Should I say, ‘Father save me from this time \{of suffering\}’? No, I came to this time so that I could suffer.
Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword back in its place! I must accept the cup {\cf2\super [228]} \{of suffering\} the Father has given me.”
Jesus said, “My food is to do what the One (God) who sent me wants me to do. My food is to finish the work that he gave me to do.
“I can do nothing alone. I judge only the way I am told. So my judgment is right. Why? Because I don’t try to please myself. But I want to please the One (God) who sent me.
You are God’s children. That is why God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts. The Spirit {\cf2\super [49]} cries out, “Abba, {\cf2\super [50]} Father.”
And when he was living as a man, he humbled himself by being fully obedient to God. He obeyed even when that caused him to die. And he died on a cross.
If we are not faithful,\par he will still be faithful,\par because he cannot be false to himself.\par
That faith and that knowledge come from our hope for life forever. God promised that life to us before time began—and God does not lie.
Those two things cannot change. God cannot lie when he says something and he cannot lie when he makes a vow. So those things give great comfort to us who came to God for safety. Those two things give us comfort and strength to continue in the hope that God gives us.