Hebrews 9:23

For it was necessary that these, the emblems of heavenly things, should be purified, with those things; but the heavenly things themselves, with sacrifices superior to them.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

In Context

22because every thing, according to the law, is purified with blood: and without the shedding of blood, there is no remission.

24For the Messiah entered not into the sanctuary made with hands, which is the emblem of the true sanctuary: but he entered into heaven itself to appear in the presence of God for us.

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Cross References

Luke 24:46And he said to them: Thus it is written, and thus it was right for Messiah to suffer, and rise from the dead on the third day;

Colossians 2:17which were shadows of the things then future; but the body is the Messiah.

Hebrews 9:9and it was a symbol, for that time, during which oblation and sacrifices were offered that could not make perfect the conscience of him who offered them:

Hebrews 9:24For the Messiah entered not into the sanctuary made with hands, which is the emblem of the true sanctuary: but he entered into heaven itself to appear in the presence of God for us.

Hebrews 10:4For the blood of bulls and of goats cannot purge away sins.

1 Peter 1:19but with the precious blood of that Lamb in which is no spot nor blemish, namely, the Messiah:

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 →

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