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As they brought Jesus the third cup of wine, the "cup of blessing," he arose from the couch and,
taking the cup in his hands, blessed it, saying: "Take this cup, all of you, and drink of it. This
shall be the cup of my remembrance. This is the cup of the blessing of a new dispensation of
grace and truth. This shall be to you the emblem of the bestowal and ministry of the divine Spirit
of Truth. And I will not again drink this cup with you until I drink in new form with you in the
Father's eternal kingdom."
The apostles all sensed that something out of the ordinary was transpiring as they drank of this
cup of blessing in profound reverence and perfect silence. The old Passover commemorated the
emergence of their fathers from a state of racial slavery into individual freedom; now the Master
was instituting a new remembrance supper as a symbol of the new dispensation wherein the
enslaved individual emerges from the bondage of ceremonialism and selfishness into the spiritual
joy of the brotherhood and fellowship of the liberated faith sons of the living God.
When they had finished drinking this new cup of remembrance, the Master took up the bread
and, after giving thanks, broke it in pieces and, directing them to pass it around, said: "Take this
bread of remembrance and eat it. I have told you that I am the bread of life. And this bread of life
is the united life of the Father and the Son in one gift. The word of the Father, as revealed in the
Son, is indeed the bread of life." When they had partaken of the bread of remembrance, the
symbol of the living word of truth incarnated in the likeness of mortal flesh, they all sat down.