Comments on: ‘Through Him, With Him, and In Him’ http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/09/19/%e2%80%98through-him-with-him-and-in-him%e2%80%99/ A First Things Blog Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:58:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Michael Gormley http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/09/19/%e2%80%98through-him-with-him-and-in-him%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-24503 Michael Gormley Mon, 20 Sep 2010 05:16:19 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=21707#comment-24503 When did Jesus drink the last cup?

Jesus drank from 3 cups during the Last Supper, but the last – the fourth – he did not drink from then.

Matthew 27:48, Mark 15:36, Luke 23:36, and John 19:30 show Jesus drinking vinegar or sour wine on the cross, from a sponge placed on a hyssop branch.

The hyssop branch was symbolic of the sprinkling of the Passover lamb’s blood using a hyssop branch – see Exodus 12:22.

So Jesus was truly the Passover Lamb; then he said, “It is finished.”

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