A cup (ποτηριον). Probably the ordinary wine of the country mixed with two-thirds water, though the word for wine (οινος) is not u…

When he had given thanks.—St. Mark agrees with St. Matthew in using the word blessing of the bread, and giv…

There was no fear of their making the mistake, which had been made by Humanists, of taking these words literally, because Jesus Christ was sitting …

The Venerable Bede: When the rites of the old Passover were finished, He passed to the new, in order to substitute the Sacramen…

The cup Jesus referred to is the third cup of the Passover meal, which was drunk after the meal was eaten. Again Jesus gave thanks (the verb is euc…

And he took the cup, and when he had given thanks
Over it, and for it, by blessing it, and appropriating it to the p…

The Lord's supper is food for the soul; therefore, a very little of that which is for the body, as much as will serve for a sign, is enough. It was…