Book of Common Prayer

The First Covenant Allowed Entrance Into The Holy of Holies Once a Year

9 Now indeed, the first covenant also had regulations of service and the earthly Holy Place. ² For the first^[a] tabernacle was prepared^[b]— in which were both the lampstand and the table, and the Presentation of the bread— which is called the Holies. ³ And behind the second curtain was the tabernacle being called the Holies of Holies, ⁴ having a golden altar-of-incense^[c], and the ark^[d] of the covenant having been covered on-all-sides with gold, in which was a golden jar having the manna and the rod of Aaron having budded and the tablets of the covenant, ⁵ and above it were the cherubim^[e] of glory overshadowing the mercy-seat^[f]— concerning which things there is not time now to be speaking in detail. ⁶ And these things thus having been prepared, the priests accomplishing the services are continually going into the first tabernacle. ⁷ But into the second only the high priest goes once a year, not without blood, which he offers for himself and the ignorances^[g] of the people—

God Was Making Clear That The Way Into The Holies Was Not Yet Revealed

⁸ ... the Holy Spirit making this clear: that the way of ^[h] the Holies has not yet been made-known while the first tabernacle^[i] was^[j] still having^[k] a standing, ⁹ which^[l] is^[m] a symbol for the present^[n] time, according to which both gifts and sacrifices are offered not being able to perfect the one worshiping in relation to the conscience, ¹⁰ being^[o] only (in-addition-to foods and drinks and different cleansings^[p]) regulations of ^[q] flesh being imposed until the time of reformation.

But Christ Entered The True Holy of Holies Once For All And Obtained Redemption

¹¹ But Christ, having arrived^[r] as High Priest of the good things having come, entered^[s] once-for-all into the Holies through^[t] the greater and more-perfect tabernacle not made-by-human-hands— that is, not of this creation; ¹² and not through^[u] the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, having obtained^[v] eternal redemption.

For Through The Spirit He Offered Himself Without Blemish To God

¹³ For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the ones having been defiled sanctifies for the cleansing of the flesh, ¹⁴ by how much more will the blood of Christ, Who through the eternal Spirit^[w] offered Himself without-blemish to God, cleanse our conscience from dead works so that we may worship^[x] the living God!

Jesus Goes To Jerusalem For a Feast, And Heals a Man On The Sabbath

5 After these things there was a Feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ² Now in Jerusalem near the Sheep gate, there is a pool— the one being called Bethzatha in Hebrew, having five porticos^[a]. ³ In these porticos, a multitude of the ones being sick were lying-down— blind ones, lame ones, withered ones. ^{4 [b] 5} And there was a certain man there having thirty and eight years in his sickness. ⁶ Jesus— having seen this one lying down, and having known^[c] that he already had a long time [in his sickness]— says to him, “Do you want to become healthy?” ⁷ The one being sick answered Him, “Sir, I do not have a man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred-up. But while I am going, another goes down before me”. ⁸ Jesus says to him, “Arise, pick up your cot and walk!” ⁹ And immediately the man became healthy, and picked up his cot and was walking.

They Want To Kill Jesus Because He Breaks The Sabbath And Makes Himself Equal To God

Now it was a Sabbath on that day. ¹⁰ So the Jews were saying to the one having been cured, “It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to pick up your cot”. ¹¹ But the one answered them, “The One having made me healthy, that One said to me, ‘Pick up your cot and walk’”. ¹² They asked him, “Who is the man having said to you, ‘Pick up and walk’?” ¹³ But the one having been healed did not know who He was. For Jesus withdrew, a crowd being in the place. ¹⁴ After these things, Jesus finds him in the temple. And He said to him, “See— you have become healthy! Do not be sinning any longer in order that something worse may not happen to you”. ¹⁵ The man went away and reported to the Jews that Jesus was the One having made him healthy. ¹⁶ And for this reason, the Jews were persecuting Jesus— because He was doing these things on a Sabbath. ¹⁷ But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and^[d] I am working”. ¹⁸ Therefore, for this reason the Jews were seeking more to kill Him: because He was not only breaking^[e] the Sabbath, but He was also calling God His own Father, making Himself equal^[f] to God!