Luke 22:20 · World English Bible
Luke 22:20 Meaning Likewise
Likewise, he took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
What does Luke 22:20 mean?
What is offered here is not a body broken but a mind poured out entirely into love, keeping nothing back for the self that believes it stands alone. The old covenant bargained with fear and asked what must be paid; the new one asks nothing, because it has understood that giving and receiving are the same act.
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What is offered here is not a body broken but a mind poured out entirely into love, keeping nothing back for the self that believes it stands alone. The old covenant bargained with fear and asked what must be paid; the new one asks nothing, because it has understood that giving and receiving are the same act. When a mind gives itself completely to a brother, it discovers it has lost nothing and become whole. The blood is only the appearance of sacrifice. What actually moves is the choice to hold nothing in reserve, and in that choosing the fear of loss quietly ends.
So the reader is shown that love does not diminish when it is shared. It increases in the one who lets it flow, and the cup, far from emptying, is the very thing that fills.
Cup: the mind held out to be filled, the vessel that receives what the will decides to pour into it Blood: the appearance of sacrifice, the seeming cost of love that turns out to cost nothing at all
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Live Luke 22:20 today
- Do something kind today with no chance of it being seen or repaid, and do not mention it later. That is the whole practice.
- With one person, drop the small reserve you usually keep, the thing you hold back just in case. Say the warm thing fully instead of at ninety percent.
- When you are tired and someone asks for help, try giving it without keeping score in your head. You will find you are less drained by this than by the counting.
What am I keeping in reserve, and what do I think it is protecting me from?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching 81
The one who gives without holding back is never emptied. Pouring out is how the vessel stays full.
Buddhism · metta
Wishing others well takes nothing from you. The kindness you send out is first felt in the one who sends it.
Sufism · Rumi
Love is the one thing that grows by being spent. Try to hoard it and you will find you were holding nothing.
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