Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
Parallel translations
- KJV Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
- BSB 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.
- 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 also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.
- Matt 26:28for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.
- 1 Cor 11:25In the same way he also took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink, in memory of me.”
- Exod 24:8Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Look, this is the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh has made with you concerning all these words.”
- Heb 13:20Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
- 2 Cor 3:6who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
- Jer 31:31“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that 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 blood of sprinkling that speaks better than that of Abel.
- Heb 8:6–13But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.
- Heb 9:17For a will is in force where there has been death, for it is never in force while he who made it lives.
- Heb 9:15For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
- 1 Cor 10:16–21The cup of blessing which we bless, isn’t it a sharing of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, isn’t it a sharing of the body of Christ?
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