And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, to sanctify the people by His own blood.
Parallel translations
- WEB Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.
- KJV Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
- NKJV Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate.
- NASB Therefore Jesus also suffered outside the gate, that He might sanctify the people through His own blood.
- NLT So also Jesus suffered and died outside the city gates to make his people holy by means of his own blood.
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Quick answer
Jesus suffered outside the city gate to sanctify His people by His own blood. His death fulfills the pattern of the sin offering and makes believers holy.
Overview
Just as the sin-offering bodies were burned outside the camp, Jesus suffered outside the gate of Jerusalem. By His own blood, He accomplishes what the old sacrifices only foreshadowed, setting His people apart as holy to God. This is the heart of the gospel: Christ's sacrificial death cleanses and consecrates those who trust Him.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- Heb 9:12–14He did not enter by the blood of goats and calves, but He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood, thus securing eternal redemption.
- John 19:17–18Carrying His own cross, He went out to The Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.
- Mark 15:20–24After they had mocked Him, they removed the purple robe and put His own clothes back on Him. Then they led Him out to crucify Him.
- 1 Cor 6:11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
- Acts 7:58They dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile the witnesses laid their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
- Eph 5:26to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
- Num 15:36So the whole congregation took the man outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
- John 19:34Instead, one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water flowed out.
- Lev 24:23Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him. So the Israelites did as the LORD had commanded Moses.
- Heb 10:29How much more severely do you think one deserves to be punished who has trampled on the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and insulted the Spirit of grace?
- Josh 7:24Then Joshua, together with all Israel, took Achan son of Zerah, the silver, the cloak, the bar of gold, his sons and daughters, his oxen and donkeys and sheep, his tent, and everything else he owned, and brought them to the Valley of Achor.
- John 17:19For them I sanctify Myself, so that they too may be sanctified by the truth.
- 1 Jn 5:6–8This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ—not by water alone, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies to this, because the Spirit is the truth.
- Heb 2:11For both the One who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers.
- Heb 9:18–19That is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood.
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