Luke 22:20 Cross References - Moffatt

²⁰ So too he gave them the cup after supper, saying, "This cup means the new covenant ratified by my blood shed for your sake.

²⁸ this means my blood, the new covenant-blood, shed for many, to win the remission of their sins.

¹⁶ The cup of blessing, which we bless, is that not participating in the blood of Christ? The bread we break, is that not participating in the body of Christ? ¹⁷ (for many as we are, we are one Bread, one Body, since we all partake of the one Bread). ¹⁸ Look at the rites of Israel. Do not those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar? ¹⁹ Do I imply, you ask, that 'food offered to an idol has any meaning, or that an idol itself means any thing'? ²⁰ No, what I imply is that anything people sacrifice is sacrificed to daemons, not to God. And I do not want you to participate in daemons! ²¹ You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and also the cup of daemons; you cannot partake of the table of the Lord and also of the table of daemons.

²⁵ In the same way he took the cup after supper, saying, 'This cup means the new covenant ratified by my blood; as often as you drink it, do it in memory of me.'

⁶ and he has further qualified me to be the minister of a new covenant — a covenant not of written law but of spirit; for the written law kills but the Spirit makes alive.

⁶ As it is, however, the divine service he has obtained is superior, owing to the fact that he mediates a superior covenant, enacted with superior promises. ⁷ For if the first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion for a second. ⁸ Whereas God does find fault with the people of that covenant, when he says: The day is coming, saith the Lord, when I will conclude a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be on the lines of the covenant I made with their fathers, ⁹ on the day I took them by the hand to lead out of Egypt's land; for they would not hold to my covenant, so I let them alone, saith the Lord. ¹⁰ This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel when that day comes, saith the Lord; I will set my laws within their mind, inscribing them upon their hearts; I will be a God to them, and they shall be a People to me; ¹¹ one citizen will no longer teach his fellow, one man will no longer teach his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all will know me, low and high together. ¹² I will be merciful to their iniquities, and remember their sins no more. ¹³ By saying 'a new covenant,' he antiquates the first. And whatever is antiquated and aged is on the verge of vanishing.

¹⁵ He mediates a new covenant for this reason, that those who have been called may obtain the eternal inheritance they have been promised, now that a death has occurred which redeems them from the transgressions involved in the first covenant.

¹⁷ A will only holds in cases of death; it is never valid so long as the testator is alive.

²⁴ to Jesus who mediates the new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood whose message is nobler than Abel's.

²⁰ May the God of peace who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, with the blood of the eternal covenant,