tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4736427810720155529.post7116093785880934524..comments2023-08-09T07:48:53.962-04:00Comments on Bear Witness to the Light: Lord, I Am Not Worthy For You To Come Under My Roof.Fr. John L. Sullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16167510362871783781noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4736427810720155529.post-81184461487000852512010-09-13T10:49:59.738-04:002010-09-13T10:49:59.738-04:00When did Jesus drink the last cup?
Jesus drank fr...When did Jesus drink the last cup?<br /><br />Jesus drank from 3 cups during the Last Supper, but the last - the fourth - he did not drink from then. <br /><br />Matthew 27:48, Mark 15:36, Luke 23:36, and John 19:30 show Jesus drinking vinegar or sour wine on the cross, from a sponge placed on a hyssop branch. <br /><br />The hyssop branch was symbolic of the sprinkling of the Passover lamb's blood using a hyssop branch - see Exodus 12:22. <br /><br />So Jesus was truly the Passover Lamb; then he said, "It is finished." <br /><br />Edited for length from a comment by Michael Gormley.Fr. John L. Sullivanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16167510362871783781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4736427810720155529.post-71850555035498223412010-09-13T02:41:17.589-04:002010-09-13T02:41:17.589-04:00'the new covenant in my Blood'
The covena...'the new covenant in my Blood'<br /><br />The covenant with Abraham was in the blood of farm animals, but the new covenant is in God's blood. This reveals a new destiny for human beings to live in Christ - in His Blood - as children of God, rather than to live as farm animals!<br /><br />In today's Gospel, I like the fact that, if the centurion is an outsider, his slave is the outsider's outsider - the ultimate reject - and yet he is healed. I also like the way the elders smugly inform Jesus that the supplicant is 'deserving' in their opinion, whereas the centurion has a much truer awareness of himself as 'unworthy' in relation to Jesus.Sarah in the tenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13680566205364331756noreply@blogger.com