He said to them, “This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.
Parallel translations
- WEB He said to them, “This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many.
- KJV And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.
- NKJV And He said to them, “This is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many.
- NASB And He said to them, “This is My blood of the covenant, which is being poured out for many.
- NLT And he said to them, “This is my blood, which confirms the covenant between God and his people. It is poured out as a sacrifice for many.
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Quick answer
Jesus identifies the cup as his blood of the covenant, poured out for many. His death inaugurates a new relationship between God and his people.
Overview
Echoing the covenant blood of Exodus 24 and the promised new covenant of Jeremiah 31, Jesus declares that his death establishes the covenant in his blood. 'Poured out for many' recalls the suffering servant of Isaiah 53 who bears the sins of many. Here the gospel is summarized: his sacrificial death secures forgiveness and a renewed covenant bond.
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- 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.”
- Zech 9:11As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.
- Rev 7:9–17After this I looked and saw a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and holding palm branches in their hands.
- Heb 9:15–23Therefore 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.
- John 6:53So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man, you have no life in you.
- 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.”
- Rev 5:8–10When He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp, and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
- 1 Cor 10:16Is 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?
- Mark 10:45For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
- Heb 13:20–21Now 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,
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