Jesus preached only one sermon in his lifetime — the Sermon on the Mount — and it began with the word blessed. Blessed is from the Old English word bledsian or the Proto-Germanic word blodison. Both these words come from the root word blod, from which we get our word blood. Blessing involves blood. No blood, no blessing. To drink blood or to have blood poured over you was to be blessed by whatever it was the blood came from.
