Luke 12:50

But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished.

The path laid out for Jesus was extremely narrow and difficult. On the one hand, his was the task of convincing all men that he is King of kings and Lord of lords; and, on the other hand, this had to be done in such a manner as to frustrate Satan's purpose of getting our Lord killed as a seditionist. The skill and genius by which Jesus negotiated this narrow path have ever been the marvel of all who contemplated them. Thus Jesus told the woman of Sychar plainly that he was the Messiah because, as a Samaritan women, her word would not be accepted in a Jewish court; and, again, the Saviour said to the man born blind, "Thou hast both seen him, and he it is that speaketh with thee," thus flatly declaring himself to be the Son of God; but here this teaching by Jesus came AFTER the Sanhedrin had excommunicated the witness! (see John 4:26; 9:37).