Hebrews 12:24

and to Jesus a mediator of a new covenant, and to blood of sprinkling that speaks better than Abel.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

In Context

23to a festal gathering and assembly of firstborn sons who were enrolled in the heavens, and to God, a Judge of all, and to spirits of righteous men who were made fully perfect,

25Watch, that ye not refuse him who speaks. For if those men did not escape, having refused him who spoke a divine message on earth, much more we, those who turn away from him from the heavens,

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Cross References

Genesis 4:10And he said, What have thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood cries to me from the ground.

Isaiah 55:3Incline your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul shall live. And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the faithful holy things (LXX/NT) of David.

Matthew 23:35so that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

Mark 14:24And he said to them, This is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many.

Luke 22:20Likewise also the cup after dining, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood being shed for you.

Hebrews 7:22By so much, Jesus has become the surety of a better covenant.

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 12:19-29

Nature of the Christian Economy. ( a. d. 62.) 18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, 19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: 20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: 21 And so terrible was the sight, that… Read the whole commentary →

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