Hebrews 10:5
For this reason, as Christ enters into the world, he says: “Sacrifice and oblation, you did not want. But you have fashioned a body for me.
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4For it is impossible for sins to be taken away by the blood of oxen and goats.
6Holocausts for sin were not pleasing to you.
Cross References
Psalms 40:6My enemies have spoken evils against me. When will he die and his name perish?
Isaiah 1:11The multitude of your sacrifices, what is that to me, says the Lord? I am full. I do not desire holocausts of rams, nor the fat of fatlings, nor the blood of calves and of lambs and of he-goats.
Jeremiah 6:20For what reason are you bringing me frankincense from Sheba, and sweet smelling reeds from a far away land? Your holocausts are not acceptable, and your sacrifices are not pleasing to me.”
Amos 5:21I hate and have rejected your feasts; and I will not accept the odor from your gatherings.
Matthew 11:3“Are you he who is to come, or should we expect another?”
Luke 7:19And John called two of his disciples, and he sent them to Jesus, saying, “Are you he who is to come, or should we wait for another?”
Matthew Henry on Hebrews 10:2-7
The Priesthood of Christ. ( a. d. 62.) 1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. 2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. 3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. 4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of… Read the whole commentary →