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This illustration for today indicates that the gifts and sacrifices being offered could not clear the conscience of a worshiper, 10 since they deal only with food, drink, and various washings, which are required for the body until the time when things would be set right.

The Messiah Has Offered a Superior Sacrifice

11 But when the Messiah[a] came as a high priest of the good things that have come,[b] he went[c] through the greater and more perfect tent that was not made by human[d] hands and that is not a part of this creation.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 9:11 Or Christ
  2. Hebrews 9:11 Other mss. read that are to come
  3. Hebrews 9:11 The Gk. lacks went
  4. Hebrews 9:11 The Gk. lacks human