A curse on you, you blind leaders who say, 'Whoever swears by the sanctuary is not duty-bound, but whoever swears by the gold of the sanctuary is duty-bound.'

You blind fools! which is greater, the gold, or the sanctuary that makes the gold sacred?

whoever swears by the sanctuary swears by it and by Him who dwells in it;

so that on you will come all the righteous blood shed on the earth from the blood of upright Abel to the blood of Zechariah, Barachiah's son, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

And at once the curtain of the sanctuary was torn from top to bottom, the earth shook, the rocks were split,

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

in accordance with the priests' customs, to go into the sanctuary of the Lord to burn the incense,

Meanwhile the people kept waiting for Zechariah and wondering why he stayed so long in the sanctuary.

But when he came out, he could not speak to them, and so they knew that he had seen a vision in the sanctuary. Meanwhile he kept on making signs to them, and remained dumb.

from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be charged against the men of this age.

for the sun had failed to shine. And the curtain before the sanctuary was torn in two.

Jesus answered them, "Destroy this sanctuary, and I will raise it in three days."

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

But He meant the sanctuary of His body.

the one who keeps up his opposition and so far exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, that he actually takes his seat in the sanctuary of God, proclaiming himself to be God.

as officiating Priest in that sanctuary, which is also the true tent of worship, which the Lord and not man set up.

and yet they officiate in a sanctuary that is a mere copy and shadow of the heavenly one, as Moses, when he was about to make the tent of worship, was warned, for, said He, "See to it that you make it all just like the pattern shown you on the mountain."

So indeed the first covenant had its regulations for worship and its earthly sanctuary.

By this the Holy Spirit was showing that there was as yet no access to the real sanctuary while the outer tent was still in existence,

and not with blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He once for all went into the real sanctuary and secured our eternal redemption.

For it was not a sanctuary made by human hands, a mere copy of the true one, that Christ entered, but it was into heaven itself that He went, in order now to appear for us in the very presence of God.

And He does not enter to offer Himself over and over again, as the high priest enters the sanctuary year after year with blood that is not his own;

Since then, my brothers, we have free access to the real sanctuary through the blood of Jesus,

For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is taken into the sanctuary by the priest as a sin-offering, are burned outside the camp.

After this I looked, and the sanctuary of the tent of testimony was thrown open in heaven,

and the seven angels bringing the seven plagues came out of the sanctuary. They were clothed in clean, brilliant linen and had belts of gold around their breasts.

(15:7) and the sanctuary was filled with smoke from the glory and power of God, and no one could go into the sanctuary until the seven plagues of the seven angels were at an end.

Then I heard a loud voice from the sanctuary say to the seven angels: "Go and empty the seven bowls of God's wrath upon the earth."

Then the seventh angel emptied his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the sanctuary from the throne, saying, "It is done."