13:13 go to him outside the camp. Jesus’ suffering outside the city gate symbolized not only the curse He bore as our sin-bearer, but also His rejection by the Jewish religious establishment and its leaders. The readers are now summoned to accept with courage their own expulsion from Jewish institutions (synagogue and temple, and perhaps family as well), in the confident expectation of the city that is to come (v. 14).

bear the reproach. See 11:25, 26 and note; Ps. 69:7–9; Rom. 15:3.