Suddenly, the curtain of the sanctuary was split in two from top to bottom; the earth quaked and the rocks were split.

Then the curtain of the sanctuary was split in two from top to bottom.

It’s like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the sky nested in its branches.”

because the sun’s light failed. The curtain of the sanctuary was split down the middle.

After Jesus had said these things, He went out with His disciples across the Kidron Valley, where there was a garden, and He and His disciples went into it.

One of the high priest’s slaves, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, said, “Didn’t I see you with Him in the garden?”

There was a garden in the place where He was crucified. A new tomb was in the garden; no one had yet been placed in it.

However, when the city clerk had calmed the crowd down, he said, “Men of Ephesus! What man is there who doesn’t know that the city of the Ephesians is the temple guardian of the great Artemis, and of the image that fell from heaven?

The law, then, was our guardian until Christ, so that we could be justified by faith.

But since that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian,

We have this hope as an anchor for our lives, safe and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain.

Behind the second curtain, the tabernacle was called the most holy place.

by a new and living way He has opened for us through the curtain (that is, His flesh),

For you were like sheep going astray,
but you have now returned
to the Shepherd and Guardian of your souls.