By this the Holy Spirit indicates that the way into the holy places is not yet opened as long as the first section is still standing
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice,
Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.
For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
Behind the second curtain was a second section called the Most Holy Place,
And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.”
I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.
And disagreeing among themselves, they departed after Paul had made one statement: “The Holy Spirit was right in saying to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet:
So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.
Then he remembered the days of old, of Moses and his people. Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put in the midst of them his Holy Spirit,
And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying,
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you. Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the Righteous One, whom you have now betrayed and murdered,
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