Woe to you, blind guides that you are! you say, 'Swear by the sanctuary, and it means nothing; but swear by the gold of the sanctuary, and the oath is binding.'

You are senseless and blind! for which is the greater, the gold or the sanctuary that makes the gold sacred?

he who swears by the sanctuary swears by it and by Him who inhabits it;

it is that on you may fall the punishment for all the just blood shed on earth from the blood of Abel the just down to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

it fell to him by lot, as was the custom of the priesthood, to enter the sanctuary of the Lord and burn incense,

Now the people were waiting for Zechariah and wondering that he stayed so long inside the sanctuary.

When he did come out he could not speak to them, so they realized that he had seen a vision in the sanctuary; he made signs to them and remained dumb.

Jesus replied, "Destroy this sanctuary and I will raise it up in three days."

"This sanctuary took forty-six years to build," the Jews retorted, "and you are going to raise it up in three days!"

He meant the sanctuary of his body, however,

and who officiates in the sanctuary or true tabernacle set up by the Lord and not by man.

The first covenant had indeed its regulations for worship, and a material sanctuary.