¹³ But now in Christ Jesus, you who were far away from God are brought near through the blood of ·Christ’s death [^LChrist; ^Cblood symbolizing his sacrificial death]. ¹⁴ Christ himself is our peace. He made ·both Jews and Gentiles one people [^Lboth one], and broke down the wall of ·hate [hostility; enmity] that divided them [^Cthe wall beyond which Gentiles could not pass in the Jerusalem temple, or the law of Moses that distinguished Jew from Gentile (see v. 15)] ·by giving his own body [^Lin his flesh; ^Cthis phrase may go with the following sentence]. ¹⁵ He did this by ·ending [setting aside; nullifying] the law of commands and rules ·by giving his own body [^Lin his flesh; ^Cthis phrase may go with the previous sentence]. His purpose was to make the two groups of people become one new ·people [humanity; person; man] in him and in this way make peace.