He did the third cup, the cup of blessing, but he didn't do the fourth cup.

The cup of the meal, as it's called, or the cup of blessing.

There's the first three, the cup of thanksgiving, the cup of deliverance, the cup of blessing.

That's the fourth cup and they call it the cup of praise.

What is in the cup? The particular brew in this cup is mixed in three parts. Wrath, death, and justice. These are the three ingredients in this cup, and they are mixed in this way. Man's death by holy wrath achieves divine justice.

The fourth sequence that was taking place is drinking the second cup of wine.

yet they have perpetuated something that is just simply a fiction invented in the latter part of the fourth

Who drank from this cup? They drank from this cup and Individual glasses were not an option.

So the one cup either gets passed around or somebody standing up front with the cup and we all come forward and we drink from it. But this little individual cup thing, I could not in good conscience partake in the Lord's table in that way because it's a divided cup.

We take a cup, and later in the service today, we'll drink a communion cup, a cup of blessing which we bless. The cup that Jesus speaks about, in verse 42, is a cup of wrath, it's a cup of judgment. Turn with me, if you will, to Psalm, chapter 75,.

For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup with foaming wine, well mixed, and He pours out from it all. The wicked of the earth shall drain it down to the dregs. So what was it? What was it that was in the cup?

After the same manner he also took the cup when he had supped saying this cup is the new testament in my blood. This do as often as you drink it in remembrance of me. That's quoting from 1 Corinthians 11 23 to 26.

In the same way also, after supper, he took the cup. So they most likely in those days, bread first, meal, cup. This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me.

He puts down one and raises up another. For a cup is in the hand of Yahweh and the wine foams. It is full of his mixture and he pours from this. Surely all the wicked of the earth must drain and drink down its dregs.

We know that the cup is the cup of God's wrath against sin that it's in full measure. It's frothy. It's potent a Cup of it would get you drunk. It is as potent as you can possibly get because God's wrath had been stored up for all time in his long Suffering according to Romans 3 that he had let the sins of the forefathers Pass that he had held on to his anger in his judicious patience over them knowing that there would be a perfect sacrifice that would work backwards and forwards to save all of the elect and this cup was potent indeed because it held all of the sins of the elect all Of the offenses against God that he had held on to that He had let go not because of injustice but because of his patience and justice was demanding that this cup be drunk and that it be drunk to the dregs all the way down and it's gonna be a Vicious cup to drink and Jesus knew the cup that he was drinking when he prayed at Gethsemane and he said father Would you take this cup away from me?

So that's the most common explanation that you will hear for this cup that Jesus prays about in the garden. Lord, let this cup pass from me. But there is a cup that Jesus drinks from that no one else can drink from.

What is the major thrust of the Passion account of the fourth Gospel?

And one of the arguments that he read that is I believe in the fourth from Scott Hahn right?

And when we get to Justin Martyr and Irenaeus of Lyons and Clement of Alexandria and Cyprian of Carthage and then Aphrahat of Persia in the 4th century, we find that winemaking is exactly what they had in mind when they spoke of a mingled cup being used at the Last Supper because they knew that that's what wine was.

You can read that in Hahn's book, The Lamb's Supper, if you're interested, and his academic book, The Fourth