28For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. …
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? …
For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 26-30)We have here the institution of the great gospel ordinance of the Lord’s supper, which was received of the Lord. Observe, I. The time when it was instituted— as they were eating . At the latter end of the passover-supper, before the table was drawn, because, as a feast upon a sacrifice, it was to come in the room of that ordinance. Christ is to us the Passover-sacrifice by which atonement is made…
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