Hebrews 9:26

"nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own,"

Key Reflection

This verse contrasts Jesus' sacrificial work with that of the Jewish high priest. While the high priest entered the holy place yearly with animal blood, Jesus offered himself once for all, bringing his own blood into heaven as the eternal sacrifice.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Verse 26. For then must he often have suffered. That is, if his blood had no more efficacy than that which the Jewish high priest offered, and which was so often repeated, it would have been necessary that Christ should have often died. But now once. Once for all; once in the sense that it is not to be repeated again--apax. In the end of the world. In the last dispensation or economy; that under which the affairs of the world will be wound up. See the phrase fully explained See Heb 1:2; See Barnes "Ac 2:17"; See Barnes "1 Co 10:11, See Barnes "Isa 2:2". Hath he appeared. He has been manifested in human form. To put away sin.

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