Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
Parallel translations
- WEB Therefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.
- BSB And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, to sanctify the people by His own blood.
- 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.
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Cross-references · 15
- Heb 9:12–14Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
- John 19:17–18And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:
- Mark 15:20–24And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him out to crucify him.
- 1 Cor 6:11And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
- Acts 7:58And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul.
- Eph 5:26That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
- Num 15:36And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the LORD commanded Moses.
- John 19:34But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
- Lev 24:23And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.
- Heb 10:29Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
- Josh 7:24And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.
- John 17:19And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
- 1 Jn 5:6–8This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.
- Heb 2:11For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
- Heb 9:18–19Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.
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