Hebrews 13:12
For this reason Jesus was put to death outside the walls, so that he might make the people holy by his blood.
Bible in Basic English
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In Context
13Let us then go out to him outside the circle of the tents, taking his shame on ourselves.
Cross References
Numbers 15:36So all the people took him outside the tent-circle and he was stoned to death there, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.
Mark 15:20And when they had made sport of him, they took the purple robe off him and put his clothing on him. And they took him out to put him to death on the cross.
John 19:17And he went out with his cross on him to the place which is named Dead Man's Head (in Hebrew, Golgotha):
Acts 7:58Driving him out of the town and stoning him: and the witnesses put their clothing at the feet of a young man named Saul.
Ephesians 5:26So that he might make it holy, having made it clean with the washing of water by the word,
Hebrews 9:12And has gone once and for ever into the holy place, having got eternal salvation, not through the blood of goats and young oxen, but through his blood.
Matthew Henry on Hebrews 13:2-18
Various Duties. ( a. d. 62.) 1 Let brotherly love continue. 2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body. 4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. 5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee,… Read the whole commentary →