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Memorializing Christ’s Death—How Much Longer?The Watchtower—1978 | March 1
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However, when the Passover meal had been carried out according to the Mosaic law, Jesus was free to introduce the new evening meal for memorializing his approaching death on that same Passover day. On the table there were still unleavened bread and cup No. 4, after the drinking of which Psalms 115 to 118 of the Hallel (“Praise”) were sung. So it was “the cup of praise.”
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Memorializing Christ’s Death—How Much Longer?The Watchtower—1978 | March 1
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Also, the cup in the same way after they had the evening meal, he saying: ‘This cup means the new covenant by virtue of my blood, which is to be poured out in your behalf.’”—Luke 22:14-20.a
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Memorializing Christ’s Death—How Much Longer?The Watchtower—1978 | March 1
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a Because some manuscripts omit the words after “my body” and to the end of Lu 22 verse 20, such words are omitted by The Bible in Living English (Byington), The New English Bible, and An American Translation, evidently because the accounts by Matthew and Mark tell of Jesus’ using only one cup on this occasion. The Holy Bible in Modern English by Ferrar Fenton double brackets the questioned words as though they were spurious.
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