Charles Ellicott Commentary Luke 22:18

"for I say unto you, I shall not drink from henceforth of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come." — Luke 22:18 (ASV)

I will not drink of the fruit of the vine.—Better, of the product. (See Notes on Matthew 26:29; Mark 14:25.) Here the words precede, in the other Gospels they follow, the institution of the Lord’s Supper. It is not probable that the same words were repeated both before and after.

The position which it occupies here, as standing parallel to what had previously been said of the Passover, seems on the whole in favour of St. Luke’s arrangement. On the other hand, it is noticeable, whatever explanation may be given of it, that St. Matthew and St. Mark omit (in the best manuscripts) the word “new” as connected with the “covenant,” and emphasise it as connected with “the fruit of the vine,” while Luke omits it in the latter case and emphasises it in the former. It is, perhaps, allowable to think of him (Luke) as taught by St. Paul, and possibly by Apollos, to embrace more fully than they did, in all its importance, the idea of the New Covenant as set forth in Galatians 3:4 and Hebrews 7–10.