Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus; - Hebrews 3:1 NASB20 What is the role of a Priest, in general, and the High Priest in particular? In the Father’s plan for Israel, the priest was tasked with mediating between God and man. [...]
So this broke my heart this morning. Then the chief priests and the elders of the people were gathered together in the court of the high priest, named Caiaphas; and they plotted together to seize Jesus by stealth and kill Him. - Matthew 26:3-4 From what I can tell, while the Second Temple stood, until [...]
Therefore, He had to be made like His brethren in all things, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. - Hebrews 2:17 Wally Fry, a blogging compadre, has nearly daily posts called “Just a Thought,” brief, pithy, [...]
Hey guys! Welcome back to our cruise (crawl?) through Hebrews. Today we reach a mile marker. We come to the end of chapter two, and to the statement of why we have been pushing this line of reasoning. All this time making a distinction between Jesus and the angels, followed by his herculean effort to [...]