God bearing them witness with signs and prodigies, and various mighty works and gifts of the holy Spirit, according to his will.

Since then the children have partaken of blood and flesh, he in like manner also partook of them, that through death he might destroy him that has the power of death, that is the devil,

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who fled to lay hold on the hope set before us,

And for this cause he is the mediator of the new covenant, that death having been for a redemption of transgressions [transgressors] under the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

By faith he observed the passover and the pouring out of blood, that the destroyer of the first-born might not touch them.

extinguished the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness were made strong, became mighty in war, put to flight encampments of foreigners;

women received their dead from a resurrection, others were tortured having not accepted redemption, that they might obtain a better resurrection;

and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, which those who heard desired that the word might not be spoken to them any more,??20 for they could not bear what was commanded, And if a beast touches the mountain it shall be stoned;

Wherefore also Jesus, that he might purify the people through his blood, suffered without the gate.