Joseph's Cup - The Holy Grail Mike Fulstone     There was, at the time of Jesus, an open field South of Jerusalem where poor potters used to dig clay for their hand made utensils that they crudely fired in open fires. As Passover approached there was a thriving market for the little crude cups that they made for the Seder.     These cups would hold a 'Hin' of wine. A Hin is approximately equal in volume to an egg and a half. There were four of these drunk by each participant in a Seder.     Since they were earthenware, the old ones from the year before had been destroyed or discarded because earthenware cannot be made kosher again after it has been used.     Jesus probably used just such a cup in the Seder that he conducted the evening before His crucifixion. There was, at the time, a tradition that one would spill a drop of wine from each cup onto one's plate for two reasons- 1. In mourning for the Jews that were still dispersed or in bondage and 2. To remind one that you could not drink the cup of salvation to the full. But it was on the last cup (probably a fifth cup) that Jesus said "Drink ye all of it."     This is probably the cup that Joseph of Arimathea saved as a memento of that occasion. It was a plain, openly fired, Earthenware cup made of clay from the Potter's Field - the very field that the chief priests bought with Judas' blood money. Matthew 27:6 (KJV) And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood. 7 And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in. 8 Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day. ~Beginning of the quest~