Discovery BoxHebrews 10:5-20
Context10:5 So when he came into the world, he said,
“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me.
10:6 “Whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you took no delight in.
10:7 “Then I said, ‘Here I am: 1 I have come – it is written of me in the scroll of the book – to do your will, O God.’” 2
10:8 When he says above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them” 3 (which are offered according to the law), 10:9 then he says, “Here I am: I have come to do your will.” 4 He does away with 5 the first to establish the second. 10:10 By his will 6 we have been made holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 10:11 And every priest stands day after day 7 serving and offering the same sacrifices again and again – sacrifices that can never take away sins. 10:12 But when this priest 8 had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, he sat down at the right hand 9 of God, 10:13 where he is now waiting 10 until his enemies are made a footstool for his feet. 11 10:14 For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are made holy. 10:15 And the Holy Spirit also witnesses to us, for after saying, 12 10:16 “This is the covenant that I will establish with them after those days, says the Lord. I will put 13 my laws on their hearts and I will inscribe them on their minds,” 14 10:17 then he says, 15 “Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no longer.” 16 10:18 Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.
10:19 Therefore, brothers and sisters, 17 since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, 10:20 by the fresh and living way that he inaugurated for us 18 through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, 19
[10:7] 1 tn Grk “behold,” but this construction often means “here is/there is” (cf. BDAG 468 s.v. ἰδού 2).
[10:7] 2 sn A quotation from Ps 40:6-8 (LXX). The phrase a body you prepared for me (in v. 5) is apparently an interpretive expansion of the HT reading “ears you have dug out for me.”
[10:8] 1 sn Various phrases from the quotation of Ps 40:6 in Heb 10:5-6 are repeated in Heb 10:8.
[10:9] 1 tc The majority of
[10:10] 1 tn Grk “by which will.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
[10:11] 1 tn Or “daily,” “every day.”
[10:12] 1 tn Grk “this one.” This pronoun refers to Jesus, but “this priest” was used in the translation to make the contrast between the Jewish priests in v. 11 and Jesus as a priest clearer in English.
[10:12] 2 sn An allusion to Ps 110:1.
[10:13] 1 tn Grk “from then on waiting.”
[10:13] 2 sn An allusion to Ps 110:1.
[10:15] 1 tn Grk “after having said,” emphasizing the present impact of this utterance.
[10:16] 1 tn Grk “putting…I will inscribe.”
[10:16] 2 sn A quotation from Jer 31:33.
[10:17] 2 sn A quotation from Jer 31:34.
[10:19] 1 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 2:11.
[10:20] 1 tn Grk “that he inaugurated for us as a fresh and living way,” referring to the entrance mentioned in v. 19.
[10:20] 2 sn Through his flesh. In a bold shift the writer changes from a spatial phrase (Christ opened the way through the curtain into the inner sanctuary) to an instrumental phrase (he did this through [by means of] his flesh in his sacrifice of himself), associating the two in an allusion to the splitting of the curtain in the temple from top to bottom (Matt 27:51; Mark 15:38; Luke 23:45). Just as the curtain was split, so Christ’s body was broken for us, to give us access into God’s presence.
