In that He says, A new covenant, He has made the first one old. Now that which decays and becomes old is ready to vanish away.

From which we see that neither was the first covenant dedicated without blood.

saying, "This is the blood of the covenant which God has enjoined to you."

"This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord; I will put My Laws into their hearts, and in their minds I will write them,"

Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy of punishment, the one who has trampled the Son of God, and who has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.

Now may the God of peace (who brought again our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant)

And the temple of God was opened in Heaven, and there was seen in His temple the ark of His covenant, and there occurred lightnings and voices, and thunders and an earthquake, and a great hail.