Verse 25
The phrase "the fruit of the vine" may have been a liturgical formula describing wine used at a feast. [Note: Wessel, p. 761.] In any case Jesus was saying He would not drink wine again until He did so in the kingdom. Jesus was anticipating the messianic banquet at the beginning of His kingdom (cf. Isaiah 25:6). This was a welcome promise in view of Jesus’ announcement of His coming death.
"The cup from which Jesus abstained was the fourth, which ordinarily concluded the Passover fellowship. The significance of this can be appreciated from the fact that the four cups of wine were interpreted in terms of the four-fold promise of redemption set forth in Exodus 6:6-7: ’I will bring you out . . . I will rid you of their bondage . . . I will redeem you . . . I will take you for my people and I will be your God’ (TJ Pesachim X. 37b)." [Note: Lane, p. 508.]
"Jesus seldom spoke of His death without also speaking of His resurrection (Mark 8:31; Mark 9:31; Mark 10:34)." [Note: Hiebert, p. 355.]
"New" or "anew" means in a qualitatively different way (Gr. kainon). Now Jesus and the disciples anticipated suffering and death, but then they would anticipate joy and glory.
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