changing the verb ‘bless’ to the more familiar ‘give thanks’ as he did so.24 The omission of a further cup-saying after the bread would also obviate the situation in which Jesus, having stated that he would not drink wine again, then immediately does so.25 As was noted above, there has been a general consensus among New Testament scholars that the two strands of the Last Supper tradition were combined very early. Yet, if the evangelists were still making somewhat clumsy attempts to conflate the two