The Holy Grail
What is the Holy Grail
Sometimes called the Chalice of Christ, the Cup of the Last Supper; the Holy Grail is a concept that emerges from medieval Christian legend rather than from actual scriptures or the Dead Sea Scrolls. While the New Testament describes Jesus sharing a cup with his disciples during the Last Supper (as in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and in 1 Corinthians), it does not assign any special mystical properties to the cup itself. The idea of the Holy Grail as a sacred object with miraculous powers developed later in European literature, particularly within Arthurian legends, blending Christian themes with chivalric quests.
Why Mention the Holy Grail
The Cup of the Last Supper is important just not for the reasons society has attributed to it over the centuries. It is key to the Marriage Supper of the lamb”.
When the Messiah tore the bread of the Passover before his death and shared it, he was foreshadowing his own torture and death as referenced in Psalm 22:14 & Psalm 22:16-18:
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I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax; it has melted within me.
Psalm 22:14
Dogs surround me, a pack of villains encircles me; they pierce my hands and my feet.
All my bones are on display; people stare and gloat over me.
They divide my clothes among them and cast lots for my garment.
Psalm 22:16-18
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The bread is symbolic not literal of his torn body but also of his blood poured out like wine. Acts that were to happen soon to create a new covenant (atonement promise & ketubah) between God and mankind. One that like a Jewish wedding was marked by a series of events. Events that would be clearly known to the Apostles having supper.
They all were in the midst of a vow by a groom to leave and make a place for them in his father’s home, to give them gifts, to give them messages and comfort while he was away, and to eventually return and lift them up to a private celebration party in his father’s home at a time only the father knows to consecrate the marriage with the church.
They just didn’t fully accept that grander metaphor at the time and leaned instead into debates of who among them was a traitor and who would be the greatest.
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What Came of the Holy Grail
While there is no record of what happened to the shared cup of the Last Supper there are a few things we think most likely happened.
- The cup wasn’t made of metal (which was possible as was glass which was around in that time for drinkware albeit very expensive) it was most likely made of pottery. Possibly with some decoration but regardless made of a fragile pottery.
- The cup was most likely either smashed in the tradition of middle ages Hebrew weddings where once the bride and groom drink of it no one else can enter into the covenant between them or just left behind. Even though it would have been a great allusion to the destruction of this body made of clay that was not recorded to have been made and we lean to most likely it was just left behind.
Something of note is the Messiah valued and desired faith, sometimes faith without evidence or artifacts as mentioned in John 20:29:
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Then Jesus told him, ‘Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.’
John 20:29
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There are no magical existing artifacts of his existence. There are no True Cross, Crown of Thorns, Holy Nails, Spear of Longinus, Holy Grail, Shroud of Turin, Sudarium of Oviedo, Veil of Veronica, Titulus Crucis, Scala Sancta (Holy Stairs), Holy Prepuce (Holy Foreskin), Seamless Robe that the guards gambled for, Cradle of Jesus, Table of the Last Supper, Column of Flagellation, Holy Sponge, or Relics of the Nativity.
These were all created to milk funds, support and faith from Christians who required proof for faith and as Messiah said in Matthew 12:39:
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A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.
Matthew 12:39
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For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in “Abraham’s Bosum” in Sheol (שְׁאוֹל) to proclaim freedom to the feasting souls there. He also went to Abaddon (אֲבַדּוֹן) to proclaim the ultimate fate of the souls there, & also to The Pit (בּוֹר, Bor) or Abyss to proclaim the fate of the Rephaim demons/shades who enter and leave it as well as watchers who created the wickedness that brought about the great flood.
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