The Messiah’s Perfect Sacrifice

²³ Thus it was necessary for these earthly^[a] copies of the things in heaven to be cleansed by these sacrifices,^[b] but the heavenly things themselves are made clean^[c] with better sacrifices than these. ²⁴ For the Messiah^[d] did not go into a sanctuary made by human^[e] hands that is merely a copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, to appear now in God’s presence on our behalf. ²⁵ Nor did he go into heaven^[f] to sacrifice himself again and again, the way the high priest goes into the Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. ²⁶ Then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the creation of the world. But now, at the end of the ages, he has appeared once for all to remove sin by his sacrifice. ²⁷ Indeed, just as people are destined to die once and after that to be judged,^{[g] 28} so the Messiah^[h] was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people. And he will appear a second time, not to deal with sin,^[i] but to bring salvation to those who eagerly wait for him.