But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!
Ver. 50. And how am I staitened] This painful preconceit of his passion was a part of our Saviour's passion. This made him spend many a night in prayer, bewailing our sins, and imploring God's grace, and he was heard in that which he requested, Hebrews 5:7 .