And for this purpose it was necessary that in all respects He should be made to resemble His brothers, so that He might become a compassionate and faithful High Priest in things relating to God, in order to atone for the sins of the people.

Therefore, holy brethren, sharers with others in a heavenly invitation, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest whose followers we profess to be.

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He brightly reflects God's glory and is the exact representation of His being, and upholds the universe by His all-powerful word. After securing man's purification from sin He took His seat at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

where Jesus has entered as a forerunner on our behalf, having become, like Melchizedek, a High Priest for ever.

Hence too He is able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, seeing that He ever lives to plead for them.

Now in connexion with what we have been saying the chief point is that we have a High Priest who has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of God's Majesty in the heavens,

and once for all entered the Holy place, taking with Him not the blood of goats and calves, but His own blood, and thus procuring eternal redemption for us.

this Priest, on the contrary, after offering for sins a single sacrifice of perpetual efficacy, took His seat at God's right hand,

simply fixing our gaze upon Jesus, our Prince Leader in the faith, who will also award us the prize. He, for the sake of the joy which lay before Him, patiently endured the cross, looking with contempt upon its shame, and afterwards seated Himself-- where He still sits--at the right hand of the throne of God.

So the Lord Jesus after having thus spoken to them was taken up into Heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

And while He was blessing them, He parted from them and was carried up into Heaven.

who said, "Galilaeans, why stand looking into the sky? This same Jesus who has been taken up from you into Heaven will come in just the same way as you have seen Him going into Heaven."

Heaven must receive Him until those times of which God has spoken from the earliest ages through the lips of His holy Prophets--the times of the reconstitution of all things.

Who is there to condemn them? Christ Jesus died, or rather has risen to life again. He is also at the right hand of God, and is interceding for us.

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has at the end of these days spoken to us through a Son, who is the pre-destined Lord of the universe, and through whom He made the Ages.

The beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ the Son of God.

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For this reason we ought to pay the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, for fear we should drift away from them.

but Christ was faithful as a Son having authority over God's house, and we are that house, if we hold firm to the End the boldness and the hope which we boast of as ours.

Let us hold firmly to an unflinching avowal of our hope, for He is faithful who gave us the promises.

General references

And the curtain in the Sanctuary was torn in two, from top to bottom.

and the whole multitude of the people were outside praying, at the hour of incense.

in whom we have this bold and confident access through our faith in Him.