The New Covenant

Jer 31:31–34; Ezek 36:26–27; Luke 22:20; Heb 8, the page's climax.

Full Jeremiah 31:31–34, Ezek 36:26–27, Luke 22:20, Hebrews 8:6–13, Heb 10:15–18. The covenant of which the Christian student is, as a believer, a participant. Featured commentary: John Owen, The Death of Death in the Death of Christ (1647, PD), gold for the New Covenant ratification argument. Cross-link to Yoma 39b, The Forty-Year Witness (typological hinge at the cessation of the old administration's signs).

Commentary

Full verse-by-verse commentary and cross-references live on the verse page →

Key passage

Jeremiah 31:33 →

"And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more."

Cross-references

Jer 31:31I will make a new covenant — the only OT use of the phrase.
Jer 31:33I will write it in their hearts.
Jer 31:34They shall all know me.
Luke 22:20This cup is the new testament in my blood.
Heb 8:6-13Quotes Jer 31 in full; identifies Christ as mediator.
2 Cor 3:6Ministers of the new testament — not of the letter, but of the spirit.

Typological connection

The new covenant, promised in Jeremiah, instituted at the Last Supper, expounded in Hebrews, fulfills what the Mosaic system foreshadowed and could not deliver: the law written on the heart, sins remembered no more.

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