Book of Common Prayer

For The Law Could Never Take Away Sins, So Jesus Came To Offer His Body

10 For the Law— having a shadow of the coming good things, not the very image^[a] of the things— is never able to perfect the ones approaching yearly with the same sacrifices which they offer perpetually^[b]. ² Otherwise would they not have ceased being offered, because of the ones worshiping no longer having a consciousness of sins, having been cleansed once-for-all? ³ But in them^[c] there is a yearly reminder of sins. ⁴ For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take-away sins. ⁵ Therefore, while entering into the world, He says [in Ps 40:6-8]: “You did not desire sacrifice and offering, but You prepared a body for Me. ⁶ You were not well-pleased with whole-burnt-offerings and offerings for sin. ⁷ Then I said, Behold, I have come— in the roll^[d] of a book it has been written about Me—that I might do Your will, God”.

Thus God Has Done Away With Animal Offerings And Established Christ’s

⁸ Saying above that “You did not desire nor were You well-pleased with sacrifices and offerings and whole-burnt-offerings and offerings for sin” (which are being offered according-to^[e] the Law!), ⁹ then He has said, “Behold, I have come that I might do Your will”— He does-away-with^[f] the first in-order-that He might establish the second,

And By God’s Will We Are Made Holy By The Offering of Christ’s Body

¹⁰ ... by which will we have been made-holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once-for-all.

I Am Doing The Will of The One Who Sent Me

³⁰ “I can do nothing from Myself. Just as I am hearing^[a], I am judging. And My judgment is righteous, because I am not seeking My will, but the will of the One having sent Me.

Jesus Responds Regarding His Identity: Others Testify About Him

³¹ “If I am^[b] testifying about Myself, My testimony is not true. ³² There is Another— the One testifying about Me— and I know that the testimony which He is testifying about Me is true.

John The Baptist Testified

³³ “You have sent out messengers to John, and he has testified to the truth^[c]. ³⁴ But I do not receive^[d] testimony from a human. Nevertheless, I am saying these things in order that you may be saved. ³⁵ That one was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to be overjoyed in his light for an hour.

Three Greater Witnesses Testify: My Works, The Father, And The Scriptures

³⁶ “But I have testimony greater than John’s. For the works which the Father has given to Me that I should accomplish them— the works themselves which I am doing are testifying about Me, that the Father has sent Me forth. ³⁷ And the Father having sent Me— that One has testified about Me. Neither His voice have you ever heard, nor His form have you seen. ³⁸ And you do not have His word abiding in you, because the One Whom that One sent-forth— this One you are not believing! ³⁹ You^[e] search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life— and those Scriptures are the ones testifying about Me! ⁴⁰ And you are not willing to come to Me in order that you may have life.

But You Are Not Receiving Me Because You Do Not Love God

⁴¹ “I do not receive glory from people, ⁴² but I know you— that you do not have the love of God in yourselves. ⁴³ I have come in the name of My Father, and you are not receiving Me. If another comes in his own name, you will receive that one. ⁴⁴ How are you able to believe while receiving glory from one another, and you are not seeking the glory from the only God?

Moses Will Be Your Accuser. For If You Believed Him, You Would Believe Me

⁴⁵ Do not be thinking that I will accuse you before the Father. The one accusing you is Moses, in whom you have put-hope. ⁴⁶ For if you were believing Moses, you would be believing Me, for that one wrote about Me. ⁴⁷ But if you do not believe the writings of that one, how will you believe My words?”