Mark 14:24 — Community Reflections

MARK 14:24 — KING JAMES VERSION 0

“And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.”

This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many, he said to them — this is my blood of the covenant echoes the Sinai covenant ratification (Exodus 24:8: this is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you). The new covenant in Jeremiah 31:31–34 promised a new covenant to replace the one Israel broke. Poured out for many: the same ransom-for-many language as Mark 10:45 — the substitutionary giving of Jesus' life for many.

Church Fathers on Mark 14:24

When the rites of the old Passover were finished, He passed to the new, in order, that is, to substitute the Sacrament of His own Body and Blood, for the flesh and blood of the lamb. Wherefore there follows: 'And as they did eat, Jesus took bread'; that is, in order to shew that He, Himself, is that person to whom the Lord swore, 'Thou art a Priest forever after the order of Melchizedec.' [Ps 100:4]
Bede · 8th century

That is, giving thanks, He brake it, which we also do, with the addition of some prayers.
Theophylact · 11th century

But in a mystical sense, the Lord transfigures into bread His Body, which is the present Church, which is received in faith, is blessed in its number, is broken in its sufferings, is given in its examples, is taken in its doctrines; and He forms His Blood in the chalice of water and wine mingled together, that by one we may be purged from our sins, by the other redeemed from their punishment [formans sanguinem suum ap. I’seudo-Hier]. For by the blood of the lamb our houses…
Pseudo-Jerome · 5th century

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