Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate.
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.
- BSB And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, to sanctify the people by His own blood.
- 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 9:12–14nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption.
- John 19:17–18He went out, bearing his cross, to the place called “The Place of a Skull”, which is called in Hebrew, “Golgotha”,
- Mark 15:20–24When they had mocked him, they took the purple off of him, and put his own garments on him. They led him out to crucify him.
- 1 Cor 6:11Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
- Acts 7:58They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
- Eph 5:26that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
- Num 15:36All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with stones, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- John 19:34However one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.
- Lev 24:23Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they brought out him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The children of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Heb 10:29How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
- Josh 7:24Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.
- John 17:19For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
- 1 Jn 5:6–8This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
- Heb 2:11For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,
- Heb 9:18–19Therefore even the first covenant has not been dedicated without blood.
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