Acts 6:14

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Summary

For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.

We have

Acts 25:8

That

John 4:21

Change

Hebrews 12:26

General references

Matthew 23:38

Bible References

We have

to this he answer'd, "I have not been guilty of any misdemeanour, either against the law, or against the temple, or against Cesar."

That

As Jesus was going from the temple, his disciples came and desired him to take a view of the buildings.

saying, we heard him say, "I will pull down this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands."

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets, and stonest those, who are sent unto thee: how often would I have gather'd thy children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and ye would not?"

the time is coming, said he, when these buildings, which you now view, shall be all thrown down and lost in ruins.

Jesus said to her, woman, believe me, the time is coming when it shall be neither on this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem that ye shall worship the father.

Change

"To what purpose then was the law?" it was added as a check to transgressors, till the offspring should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels with the intervention of a mediator.

even so we, whilst we were children, were in a state of servitude to the elements of the world. but when the time appointed was accomplished,

If therefore the Levitical priesthood, concerning which the people received a law, could have given perfection, what further need was there that another priest should rise, to be named after the order of Melchisedec, and not after the order of Aaron?

Our high priest then has obtained a priesthood so much the more excellent, as he is the mediator of a better alliance, established upon better promises.

This type subsists to the present time, both gifts and sacrifices being still offered, which cannot purify the mind of him that officiates

For the law being only an allusion to a future dispensation that was more excellent, and not an exact imitation of such a state, cannot by the anniversary sacrifices, which are offered, entirely purify those that present themselves.

whose voice then shook the earth: but he has promised to do it now, saying, " yet once more I will shake, not the earth only, but heaven too."

General references

know, that your habitation shall be soon turned into a desert.