This principle became a standard teaching of early Christians (Rom 8:17; 2 Thess 1:5; 2 Tim 2:12). The cup disciples must share is his death (26:27-28, 39), borrowed from one image of God's wrath in the Prophets (Ps 11:6; Is 51:17; Jer 25:15-17; 51:7; Hab 2:16; Zech 12:2). Jesus later tells them as much at the Last Supper (Mt 26:27-28). As R. A. Cole notes, "This price they will in any case pay, for this is not the price of Christian greatness but the price of following Christ at all" (Cole 1961:170).