And He said to them, “This is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed 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.
- BSB He said to them, “This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out 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 24:8Moses 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.”
- 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.
- Rev 7:9–17After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no man could count, out of every nation and of all tribes, peoples, and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands.
- Heb 9:15–23For 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.
- John 6:53Jesus therefore said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don’t have life in yourselves.
- 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.”
- Rev 5:8–10Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
- 1 Cor 10:16The 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?
- Mark 10:45For the Son of Man also came not 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 brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
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