²² Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God (the heavenly Jerusalem), to myriads of angels, a festive gathering,^{(A) 23} to the assembly of the firstborn whose names have been written^[a] in heaven, to a Judge, who is God of all, to the spirits of righteous people made perfect,^{(B) 24} and to Jesus, the mediator^(C) of a new covenant,^(D) and to the sprinkled blood, which says better things than the blood of Abel.^(E)