The relationship between blood-which-will-be-spilled and remission of sins in Matthew 26,28
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.22351/et.v64i1.1407Keywords:
Blood, Remission, Alliance, Supper, CrossAbstract
This article seeks to understand the relationship between the spilled of the blood of Jesus and the remission of sins presented in the supper narrative, in Matthew 26,28. This relationship is exclusive to the Matean text and, for this reason, we focus on the editorial context of this gospel. Then we tried to situate the studied pericope from the liturgical and historical spheres. We resumed the Sinai alliance; the meaning of blood and wine; finally, Jewish and, later, Judeo-Christian understanding of sin and forgiveness. The typological reading model of the Bible guided the research. The result points to the sense that the Matheus text agrees with Jewish theology about sin, redemptive sacrifice and justification. This same theology underlies the New Testament and the Christian supper celebrations today.