Hebrews 13:12

So Jesus also suffered outside the city gate in order to sanctify the people by his own blood.

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

11For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest as an offering for sin are burned outside the camp.

13Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured.

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Cross References

Mark 15:20When they had finished mocking him, they stripped him of the purple robe and put his own garments back on him. Then they led him out to crucify him.

John 19:17Carrying his own cross, he went out to a location called the Place of the Skull (which in Hebrew is called Golgotha).

Acts 7:58Then they drove him out of the city and began stoning him. Meanwhile, the witnesses laid their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Ephesians 5:26to sanctify her by cleansing her with the washing of water by the word,

Hebrews 9:12he entered once for all into the holy places, not by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption.

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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