How many glasses of wine did Jesus have at the Last Supper?
Most Christians believe that the Last Supper was a Passover Seder Meal which would have included four cups of wine. Jesus however used the third cup of wine (“I will redeem”) as the first Eucharist and then left the room to pray before the fourth cup was drunk, saying, “I tell you, from now on I shall not drink this fruit of the vine until the day when I drink it with you new in the kingdom of my Father.” (Matthew 26:29) Some have even suggested that the vinegar on the sponge that Jesus drank from the cross may have been the fourth and final cup of wine of the Last Supper Passover Seder. With love in Christ.
The quantity is not stated in scripture. In the course of the Last Supper, according to Paul and the Synoptic Gospels (but not the Gospel of John), Jesus divides up some bread, says a prayer (see also grace), and hands the pieces to his disciples, saying this is my body. He then takes a cup of wine, (known as the Holy Grail), offers another prayer, and hands it around, saying this is my blood of the everlasting ‘covenant’, which is poured for many . Finally, according to Paul and Luke, he tells the disciples do this in memory of me. These words signify the whole point in the final meal. Jesus wants the disciples to remember him, and his ways even in death, because he knows that they will again be reunited in the kingdom of God. During Jewish Passover meals, the wine was usually consumed during the eating of the bread, but here it occurs after. This may indicate that the event was not the official Passover dinner, and hence more in line with John’s chronology (Brown et al. 626), althoug
