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But 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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Verse 22. The chalice. It is a metaphor signifying Christ’s sufferings and death. See Psal. 10:7 and 74:9. Isaiah 51:17. The apostles replied, we can drink thy cup. Their answer shewed their readiness, but want of humility. Witham.
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