In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is poured out for you.
Parallel translations
- WEB Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
- KJV Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
- NKJV Likewise He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you.
- NASB And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup, which is poured out for you, is the new covenant in My blood.
- NLT After supper he took another cup of wine and said, “This cup is the new covenant between God and his people—an agreement confirmed with my blood, which is poured out as a sacrifice for you.
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Quick answer
After supper Jesus takes the cup and calls it the new covenant in His blood, poured out for them. He grounds the new covenant in His sacrificial death.
Overview
Jesus declares that His shed blood inaugurates the new covenant promised in Jeremiah, securing forgiveness and a renewed relationship with God. The cup proclaims that His life is given as a substitute for His people. This is the heart of the gospel: redemption purchased by Christ's own blood, applied to all who trust Him.
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- Covenant"This cup is the new covenant in my blood."
Cross-references · 12
- Zech 9:11As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.
- Matt 26:28This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
- 1 Cor 11:25In the same way, after supper He took the cup, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood; do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.”
- Exod 24:8So Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
- Heb 13:20Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,
- 2 Cor 3:6And He has qualified us as ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
- Jer 31:31Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
- Heb 12:24to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
- Heb 8:6–13Now, however, Jesus has received a much more excellent ministry, just as the covenant He mediates is better and is founded on better promises.
- Heb 9:17because a will does not take effect until the one who made it has died; it cannot be executed while he is still alive.
- Heb 9:15Therefore Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, now that He has died to redeem them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
- 1 Cor 10:16–21Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ?
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