Then Jesus said to them, "You will all stumble over me tonight, for the Scripture says, 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'

No, you offered me the tent of Moloch and the star of your god Rompha, the images you had made to worship! So I will now remove you beyond Babylon.'

"In the desert our forefathers had the tent of the testimony, like the model Moses had seen, as God who spoke to him ordered him to make it.

This tent our forefathers brought in and passed on when under Joshua they dispossessed the nations which God drove out before them, and it remained until the time of David.

Then he called in two of his captains and said to them, "Get two hundred men ready to march to Caesarea, with seventy mounted soldiers and two hundred armed with spears, to leave at nine o'clock tonight."

For I know that if this earthly tent in which I live is taken down, I have a building in heaven which comes from God, a house not built by human hands but eternal.

For I who am still in my tent am sighing beneath my burdens, because I do not want it to be put off but to put on the other over it, so that my dying body may be absorbed in life.

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."

For the first or outer part of the tent, which is called the holy place, was equipped with the lamp and table and the presentation bread.

But behind the second curtain is the tent that is called the holy of holies,

With these arrangements completed in this way, the priests in conducting their official services regularly go into the outer part of the tent of worship;

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,

But when Christ came as the High Priest of good things that have already taken place, He went by way of that greater and more perfect tent of worship, not made by human hands, that is, not belonging to this material creation,

In the same way he sprinkled with blood the tent and all the utensils of the priestly service.

We Christians have an altar at which the ministers of the Jewish tent of worship have no right to eat.

Yet I think it right, as long as I live in this bodily tent, to arouse you by a reminder,

because I know that the removal of my bodily tent is to be very soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ has shown me.

This is why they are before the throne of God, and day and night serve Him in His temple, and He who is seated on His throne will shelter them in His tent.

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