Matthew 26 Pt.6 The Institution of The New Covenant!

by Michael Robson

It was whilst going through The Passover meal on Thursday, the night before Jesus would be crucified, with His disciples, that Jesus stopped at certain intervals to make a comment. These stops seem to coincide with the 4 cups that are part of a Passover Seder. After breaking bread and blessing the 3rd cup, Jesus spoke of it as The New Covenant in His blood. Jesus would not drink from the fruit of the vine again until He would drink it New with His disciples and all those at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb (See Matt.8:11-13; Rev.19:9). This may mean that on the night of The Passover, that Jesus did not partake of the 4th cup, which is usually accompanied with a prayer for God’s wrath to come on the nations that despise Him. By not participating in that 4th cup, it supports the idea that the final cup that Jesus actually did partake of was that of God’s wrath, when He prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, that ‘this cup might pass from Him’, and yet nevertheless He did partake of that cup, which He alone could drink.

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Michael Robson