Hebrews 13:12

And so Jesus, also, to purify the people by his own blood, suffered outside the gate.

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In The King James Version

Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.

In Context

11The bodies of those animals whose blood is brought by the high priest into the sanctuary, as an offering for sin, are burnt outside the camp.

13Therefore let us go out to him ‘outside the camp,’ bearing the same reproaches as he;

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Cross References

Mark 15:20and, when they had left off mocking him, they took off the purple robe, and put his own clothes on him.

John 19:17and he went out, carrying his cross himself, to the place which is named from a skull, or, in Hebrew, Golgotha.

Acts 7:58and began to stone him, the witnesses laying their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Ephesians 5:26to make her holy, after purifying her by the washing with the water, according to his promise;

Hebrews 9:12Nor was it with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood, that he entered, once and for all, into the sanctuary, and obtained our eternal deliverance.

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 →

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