It is Wednesday evening of Passion week and Jesus has just completed the Passover celebration with His disciples in a large upper room that accommodated guests during the annual Jewish feasts, and which may very well have belonged to the family of John Mark, author of our second gospel; see Mar 14:13-15, Luk 22:7-12, Act…
It is Wednesday evening of Passion Week and Jesus is celebrating the Passover with His disciples a day earlier than the religious leaders in Jerusalem. For the sighting of the New Moon that would have occurred fourteen days earlier is not always clear and can be ambiguous and subjective, leading to the discrepancy. Since Jesus…
At the Last Supper Jesus bid all His disciples to drink from the third cup, the cup of redemption, saying “For this is my blood of the covenant which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.” Recall that a covenant and a will or testament are closely related, with the same Greek…
At the Last Supper Jesus spoke of the wine that was shared in remembrance of the Jewish nation’s deliverance from their bondage in Egypt, “This is my blood of the covenant that is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins”. For as we have seen, forgiveness of sins is inseparably related to our…
We have seen that the issue with man’s salvation isn’t one of satisfying God’s justice in order to receive forgiveness, for death wasn’t a penalty imposed by God for violating His command, but the natural consequence of the deceitfulness of sin that leads to death, and from which God in His love seeks to save…
During Jesus’ Last Supper with His disciples He said of the third cup that was shared as part of the Passover meal and that commemorated the redemption of the Jewish nation from its bondage in Egypt, “This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins” (Mat…
During the Jewish Passover celebration four ritual cups of wine were shared. These cups were associated with four aspects of the Lord’s deliverance of the Jewish people from Egypt described in Exo 6:6-7, which deliverance also typified the fuller salvation of His people from sin. As the third cup recalled how the Lord redeemed the…
At Jesus’ last Passover with His disciples He announced that one of them closest to Him would betray Him, and instituted the Lord’s Supper. We have seen that the bread He broke was much more than just a symbol of His physical body that was given for them; it was also a symbol of His…
During Jesus’ last Passover celebration, at which He announced that one of those closest to Him sharing its communion would betray Him, He imparted a much fuller meaning to the cups of wine that were shared as part of the meal, which were already a reminder of how the Lord brought the Jews out from…
The gospels of Matthew and Mark mention only one cup that was shared during the Lord’s Supper, and even a second cup mentioned by Luke is perhaps better understood as providing additional information about the cup he mentioned first to emphasize to the new Gentile churches the ordinance’s purpose of looking forward to an even…