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Monthly Question Page
Q. Can you please explain the significance of the cup that the Lord instructed the disciples to drink of in Luke 22:17? Is it different from the cup in verse 20?
A. “And He took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves…Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in My blood, which is shed for you.”
There were two cups on the table on this occasion. The first was connected by tradition to the passover. Even though there is no record of it as instituted by Jehovah in the Old Testament, the Lord used it to figure the coming joy of the kingdom in a future day when He will reign as King of Kings.
The second cup figures His blood shed on the cross, and this He connected with the new supper called the “Lord’s Supper” (1 Corinthians 11:20), which He desires every believer to partake of from week to week in remembrance of His death. “After the same manner also He took the cup, when He had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in My blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of Me” (1 Corinthians 11:25).
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