⁸ In the one case, the tenth is collected by people who die; but in the other case, by him who is declared to be living.^(A)

²⁰ where our forerunner, Jesus, has entered on our behalf.^(A) He has become a high priest^(B) forever, in the order of Melchizedek.^(C)

⁶ And he says in another place,

¹⁸ I am the Living One; I was dead,^(A) and now look, I am alive for ever and ever!^(B) And I hold the keys of death and Hades.^(C)

²³ Now there have been many of those priests, since death prevented them from continuing in office;

¹⁹ Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me.^(A) Because I live, you also will live.^(B)

²⁷ Just as people are destined to die once,^(A) and after that to face judgment,^(B)

²⁴ For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with human hands that was only a copy of the true one;^(A) he entered heaven itself,^(B) now to appear for us in God’s presence.^{(C) 25} Nor did he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place^(D) every year with blood that is not his own.^(E)

¹⁶ Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt?^(A)

⁶ Jesus answered, “I am^(A) the way^(B) and the truth^(C) and the life.^(D) No one comes to the Father except through me.^(E)