Ephesians 2:13

But now in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua, you, who formerly where in the outermost courts, have been brought near by the kapporah of the dahm of Moshiach.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

In Context

12Have zikaron (remembrance) that you were at that time bazunder (unrelated and separate) from Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, having been alienated from the torat haEzrakhut (the citizenship) in the Am Brit, from Yisroel, being zarim (strangers) to the Beritot HaHavtacha, farloiren (lost) and having no tikvah (hope) and without G-d in the Olam Hazeh. + 2:12 Isa 14:1; 65:1

14For Moshiach himself is our shalom, who made the Shnayim into Echad, having broken down in the basar of Moshiach the barrier of the Mechitzah (the dividing partition), the Soreg (barrier), + 2:14 of the holy precinct in the Beis HaMikdash between Jews and non-Jews the Eyvah (Enmity),

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Cross References

Psalms 22:7But I am a tola'at, and no ish; 1 a reproach of men, and despised of the people. + 22:7 See Isa 53:3 on the despised Moshiach 1

Isaiah 11:10And in Yom HaHu there shall be a Shoresh Yishai, which shall stand for a nes (banner) for the peoples; to Him + 11:10 Moshiach will the Goyim seek; and His menucha (resting place) shall be kavod.

Isaiah 43:6I will say to the tzafon (north), 1 Give them up; and to the teiman (south), 1 hold not back; bring My banim from afar, 1 and My banot from the ketzeh ha'aretz; 1

Isaiah 57:19I create the [repentant] fruit of the lips; 1 Shalom, shalom to him that is far off, 1 and to him that is near, saith Hashem; 1 and I will heal him. 1

Isaiah 60:9Surely the iyim shall wait for Me, 1 and the oniyot (ships) of Tarshish will come first, 1 to bring thy banim from afar, 1 their kesef and their zahav with them, 1 unto the Shem of Hashem thy G-d, 1 and to the Kadosh Yisroel, 1 because He hath glorified thee. 1

Jeremiah 16:19Hashem, my strength, and my ma'oz (fortress), 1 and my refuge in the yom tzarah, 1 the Goyim shall come unto Thee from the ends of the earth, 1 and shall say: Surely Avoteinu have inherited sheker, 1 hevel, and things wherein there is no profit. 1

Matthew Henry on Ephesians 2:12-14

The Miserable Condition of the Ephesians by Nature. ( a. d. 61.) 11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; 12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: 13 But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. In… Read the whole commentary →

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