Later text
Mark 14:24BSB
He said to them, “This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.
Intertextuality Pair
Mark 14:24 → Isaiah 53:11-12
Allusion
Earlier text
After the anguish of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will bear their iniquities. Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.
Significance
Jesus's cup-word at the Last Supper — "This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many" (hyper pollōn ekchynnomenon) — echoes the key language of Isaiah 53:11-12. Isaiah 53:12 states that the Servant "poured out his soul (he'era lannavet naphsho) to death" and "bore the sin of many (rabbim)." Mark's "for many" (hyper pollōn) mirrors the rabbim of Isaiah 53:12 in the same way as the ransom saying of Mark 10:45. The "pouring out" of blood in the cup-word (ekchynnomenon, present participle) captures the very language Isaiah uses for the Servant's self-offering. Mark's shorter form of the cup-word (without Matthew's "for the forgiveness of sins" or Luke's "new covenant") is direct and focused: Jesus identifies the covenantal blood with the Servant's self-poured-out soul, presenting the Supper as the enacted fulfillment of Isaiah 53's promised substitutionary atonement.
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- Reference Type
- Allusion
- Connection Method(s)
- Promise-Fulfillment — Christ is the Servant Isaiah foresaw, not a type of the person
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