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Luke 22:20 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 20. 20Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
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Quick Meaning
Luke 22:20 interprets the cup as new covenant in Jesus' blood within Jewish Passover rather than against it.
Read It With
- Luke 22:14–22:23
Read Luke 22:20 with 22:14–22:23. In isolation, this contribution—interprets the cup as new covenant in Jesus' blood within Jewish Passover rather than against it—can be detached from its speaker, audience, scene or teaching sequence, and outcome. The complete unit establishes: At the table Jesus expresses desire to eat before suffering, speaks of future fulfillment, gives thanks over cup and bread, identifies his body and covenant blood, and names betrayal at the table.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Luke 22:20 interprets the cup as new covenant in Jesus' blood within Jewish Passover rather than against it. This precise contribution belongs inside “Jesus Interprets the Passover Meal through Suffering and Covenant” because At the table Jesus expresses desire to eat before suffering, speaks of future fulfillment, gives thanks over cup and bread, identifies his body and covenant blood, and names betrayal at the table.
Follow the Context
- Identify the actors, setting, and initiating speech or action in Luke 22:14–22:23.
- At the table Jesus expresses desire to eat before suffering, speaks of future fulfillment, gives thanks over cup and bread, identifies his body and covenant blood, and names betrayal at the table.
- Hold this material interpretive limit in view: Manuscripts vary significantly around the second cup and verses 19b-20, though the longer text is ancient and in the KJV. Passover, covenant, sacrifice, fellowship, and future kingdom inform the meal without one atonement theory exhausting it.
What This Verse Is Not Saying
This verse does not detach its specific contribution—interprets the cup as new covenant in Jesus' blood within Jewish Passover rather than against it—from the complete unit or override the unit's explicit boundary: The meal does not authorize antisemitism, sacramental coercion, leader ownership of bodies, contempt for Jewish Passover, or certainty about every liturgical detail.
What Remains True
Luke 22:20 interprets the cup as new covenant in Jesus' blood within Jewish Passover rather than against it. Read inside Luke 22:14–22:23, this contribution supports the unit's proportionate truth: At the table Jesus expresses desire to eat before suffering, speaks of future fulfillment, gives thanks over cup and bread, identifies his body and covenant blood, and names betrayal at the table. Its use remains accountable to affected people and the unit's explicit boundary.
How It Can Shape Life
- Luke 22:20 interprets the cup as new covenant in Jesus' blood within Jewish Passover rather than against it. Its faithful response is proportionate to that role: Receive the meal through Jesus' suffering, covenant, shared table, and future hope while protecting bodies and conscience from sacramental coercion and contempt for Jewish Passover.
Teach It Back
Explain Luke 22:20's specific contribution to Luke 22:14–22:23: interprets the cup as new covenant in Jesus' blood within Jewish Passover rather than against it. Include the preceding and following movement, one source-controlled uncertainty, one affected person or group, and what the verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
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Read Luke 22:14–22:23 — Jesus Interprets the Passover Meal through Suffering and CovenantSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
Manuscripts vary significantly around the second cup and verses 19b-20, though the longer text is ancient and in the KJV. Passover, covenant, sacrifice, fellowship, and future kingdom inform the meal without one atonement theory exhausting it.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and coverage.
Exact location: Luke 22:14–22:23, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and sentence relations; the edition is not treated as a complete apparatus.
Exact location: Faithlife SBLGNT official repository, data/sblgnt/text/Luke.txt, 22:14–22:23
Open the Luke Greek text file ↗open translation and translator notes
NET Bible First Edition Notes: Luke
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level translation, syntax, KJV-language clarification, historical notes, Synoptic parallels, and textual alternatives.
Exact location: NET Bible First Edition Luke PDF, exact tn/tc/sn entries attached to Luke 22:14–22:23
Open source ↗