Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 20:22

22 But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye aske. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the Baptisme, that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able.

Mark hath the same Chap. 10.38, 39. Our Savior gently reproves them for their inadvised Petition, and again mindeth them, that he was first to Suffer, and then to enter into his glory, and that by much Tribulation they also must enter into the Kingdom of God, which was a thing fitter for their present Thoughts, than sitting at his right hand, and left hand, for we must suffer with him, if we will be glorified together, Rom. 8.17. How ready are we to ask we know not what? Are you able to drink of the Cup, &c. The Sence is, are you able to Suffer, what I am to Suffer? Hereby our Savior intimates, That those who are the freest, and greatest Sufferers for Christ: shall have the greatest Rewards from him. Christ here expresseth his Sufferings under the Notion of Drinking of a Cup, and being Baptised with a Baptism. A Cup is an ordinary Metaphor in Holy Writ, by which a M[illegible: 1 letter]ns Portion in this Life is expressed, whither it be a Portion of good Things or evil. Psal. 11.[illegible: 1 letter]6 Isai. 51.17. Ier. 25.15. Lam. 4.21. Chap. 26.39, 40, 42. Iohn 18.11. Drinking of a Cup is usually put for Suffering Ier. 49.12. Ezech. 23.32. Obad. 16. The Metaphor being as some think, taken from a Custom in some Nations, to put Malefactors to Death by giving them a Cup of Poyson to drink, or as others think, from the leud Custome, at compotations to force men to drink off their Cups. To be Baptized with the Baptisme I am Baptized with, hath the same Import, see Luke 12.50. Afflictions are ordinarily compared in Scripture to Waters: To be Baptized, is to be dipped in Water; Metaphorically to be plunged in Afflictions: I am saith Christ to be baptized with B[illegible: 1 letter]ood, overwhelmed with Sufferings and Afflictions, Are you able to be so? They say unto him, we are able. This was as rashly spoke as the other. How little do we know our own Strength? Ch. 26.56. When Christ was apprehended, they all forsook him and fled.