Mark 14:24 to Isaiah 53:11-12

NT Text: Mark 14:24

OT Source(s):

• Isaiah 53:11-12 (the Servant bearing sin of many, poured out his soul to death)

Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Reference Type: Allusion

Connection Method(s): Promise-Fulfillment + Typology (Direct Type, Forward-Looking)

Anchor Text: Isa 52:13-53:12 — The Suffering Servant

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.