Hebrews 10:5
That's why when Christ came into the world he said, “You didn't want sacrifices or offerings, but you did prepare a body for me.
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4because it's impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to remove sins.
6Burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin gave you no pleasure.
Cross References
Psalms 40:6You don't want sacrifices and offerings. Now you have helped me understand —you're not asking for burnt offerings or sin offerings.
Isaiah 1:11What use are all your many sacrifices to me? asks the Lord. I am sick and tired of your burnt offerings of rams and the fat of sacrificial animals. I don't delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats!
Jeremiah 6:20What's the point of offering me frankincense from Sheba or sweet calamus from a faraway land? I don't accept your burnt offerings; I'm not pleased with your sacrifices.
Amos 5:21I hate, I despise your festivals and take no delight in your religious assemblies.
Matthew 11:3to ask on his behalf, “Are you the one we were expecting to come, or should we continue to look for someone else?”
Luke 7:19John called two of his disciples and told them to go and see Jesus, and ask, “Are you the one we've been expecting, or should we wait for someone else?”
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 →