Matthew 26:39

26:39 Going a little farther, he threw himself down with his face to the ground and prayed, ¹  “My Father, if possible, ²  let this cup ³  pass from me! Yet not what I will, but what you will.”

Matthew 26:42

26:42 He went away a second time and prayed, ⁴  “My Father, if this cup ⁵  cannot be taken away unless I drink it, your will must be done.”

John 18:11

18:11 But Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword back into its sheath! Am I not to drink the cup that the Father has given me?” ⁶ 

Romans 8:15

8:15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, ⁷  but you received the Spirit of adoption, ⁸  by whom ⁹  we cry, “Abba, Father.”

¹ tn Grk “ground, praying and saying.” Here the participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

² tn Grk “if it is possible.”

³ sn This cup alludes to the wrath of God that Jesus would experience (in the form of suffering and death) for us. See Ps 11:6; 75:8-9; Isa 51:17, 19, 22 for this figure.

⁴ tn Grk “saying.” The participle λέγων (legwn) is redundant here in contemporary English and has not been translated.

⁵ tn Grk “this”; the referent (the cup) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn Grk “The cup that the Father has given me to drink, shall I not drink it?” The order of the clauses has been rearranged to reflect contemporary English style.

⁷ tn Grk “slavery again to fear.”

⁸ tn The Greek term υἱοθεσία (Juioqesia) was originally a legal technical term for adoption as a son with full rights of inheritance. BDAG 1024 s.v. notes, “a legal t.t. of ‘adoption’ of children, in our lit., i.e. in Paul, only in a transferred sense of a transcendent filial relationship between God and humans (with the legal aspect, not gender specificity, as major semantic component).”

⁹ tn Or “in that.”