Hebrews 9:23
[It was] necessary then that the figurative representations of the things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with sacrifices better than these.
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Luke 24:46and said to them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved the Christ to suffer, and to rise from among the dead the third day;
Colossians 2:17which are a shadow of things to come; but the body [is] of Christ.
Hebrews 9:9the which [is] an image for the present time, according to which both gifts and sacrifices, unable to perfect as to conscience him that worshipped, are offered,
Hebrews 9:24For the Christ is not entered into holy places made with hand, figures of the true, but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us:
Hebrews 10:4For blood of bulls and goats [is] incapable of taking away sins.
1 Peter 1:19but by precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot, [the blood] of Christ,
Matthew Henry on Hebrews 9:16-23
The Priesthood of Christ. ( a. d. 62.) 15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. 16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. 17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. 18 Whereupon neither the first… Read the whole commentary →