Hebrews 13:12

Hebrews 13:12 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
• New International Version (NIV)And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood.
• English Standard Version (ESV)So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate.

Context of Hebrews 13:12

10Those who serve at the tent have no right to eat what is sacrificed at our altar. 11The chief priest brings the blood of animals into the holy place as an offering for sin. But the bodies of those animals were burned outside the Israelite camp. That is why Jesus suffered outside the gates of Jerusalem. He suffered to make the people holy with his own blood. 13So we must go to him outside the camp and endure the insults he endured. 14We don’t have a permanent city here on earth, but we are looking for the city that we will have in the future.

Hebrews 13:12 word by word

Διὸ καὶ Ἰησοῦς, ἵνα ἁγιάσῃ διὰ τοῦ ἰδίου αἵματος τὸν λαόν, ἔξω τῆς πύλης ἔπαθεν.Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Whereforeδιόdio · thereforeG1352
• JesusἸησοῦςIēsous · JesusG2424
• alsoκαίkai · andG2532
• thatἵναhina · in order that/toG2443
• he might sanctifyἁγιάζωhagiazō · to sanctifyG37
• the peopleὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• the peopleλαόςlaos · a peopleG2992
• withδιάdia · through/because ofG1223
• his ownἴδιοςidios · one's own/privateG2398
• bloodαἷμαaima · bloodG129
• sufferedπάσχωpaschō pathō penthō · to sufferG3958
• withoutἔξωexō · out/outside(r)G1854
• the gateπύληpulē · gateG4439

Cross-references for Hebrews 13:12

• Hebrews 2:11Jesus, who makes people holy, and all those who are made holy have the same Father. That is why Jesus isn’t ashamed to call them brothers and sisters.
• Hebrews 9:13The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of cows sprinkled on unclean people made their bodies holy and clean.
• Hebrews 10:29What do you think a person who shows no respect for the Son of God deserves? That person looks at the blood of the promise (the blood that made him holy) as no different from other people’s blood, and he insults the Spirit that God gave us out of his kindness. He deserves a much worse punishment.
• John 17:19I’m dedicating myself to this holy work I’m doing for them so that they, too, will use the truth to be holy.
• John 19:34However, one of the soldiers stabbed Jesus’ side with his spear, and blood and water immediately came out.
• 1 Corinthians 6:11That’s what some of you were! But you have been washed and made holy, and you have received God’s approval in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
• Ephesians 5:26He did this to make the church holy by cleansing it, washing it using water along with spoken words.
• 1 John 5:6This Son of God is Jesus Christ, who came by water and blood. He didn’t come with water only, but with water and with blood. The Spirit is the one who verifies this, because the Spirit is the truth.
• Leviticus 24:23Moses spoke to the people of Israel. So the man who had cursed the Lord’s name was taken outside the camp. There they stoned him to death as the Lord commanded Moses. The Israelites did as the Lord commanded Moses.
• Numbers 15:36So the whole community took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the Lord commanded Moses.
• Joshua 7:24Joshua and all Israel took Achan (son of Zerah), the silver, the robe, the bar of gold, his sons and daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, and his tent—everything he had—and brought them to the valley of Achor [Disaster].
• Mark 15:20After the soldiers finished making fun of Jesus, they took off the purple cape and put his own clothes back on him. Then they led him out to crucify him.
• John 19:17He carried his own cross and went out ⌞of the city⌟ to a location called The Skull. (In Hebrew this place is called Golgotha.)
• Acts 7:58and after they had thrown him out of the city, they began to stone him to death. The witnesses left their coats with a young man named Saul.

Commentaries on Hebrews 13:12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12That he might sanctify the people - That he might consecrate them to God, and make an atonement for their sins, he suffered without the gate at Jerusalem, as the sin-offering was consumed without the camp when the tabernacle abode in the wilderness. Perhaps all this was typical of the abolition of the Jewish sacrifices, and the termination of the whole Levitical system of worship. He left the city, denounced its final destruction, and abandoned it to its…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12Wherefore, Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood - That there might be a conformity between his death for sin and the sacrifices which typified it. It is implied here that it was voluntary on the part of Jesus that he suffered out of the city; that is, it was so ordered by Providence that it should be so. This was secured by his being put to death as the result of a judicial trial, and not by popular tumult; see the notes on…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-15Verses 7-15 The instructions and examples of ministers, who honourably and comfortably closed their testimony, should be particularly remembered by survivors. And though their ministers were some dead, others dying, yet the great Head and High Priest of the church, the Bishop of their souls, ever lives, and is ever the same. Christ is the same in the Old Testament day. as in the gospel day, and will be so to his people for ever, equally merciful…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 11-12The author explains the sacrifice on the Day of Atonement (Leviticus 16:1–28), where animals were burned outside the camp (Leviticus 16:27). Similarly, Jesus suffered and died outside Jerusalem's city gates. He was the ultimate Day of Atonement sacrifice (Hebrews 9:11–14, 24–28; 10:1–4).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 11-1211-12. For just as "the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by ... are burned without the camp," so "Jesus also that ... suffered without the gate" of ceremonial Judaism, of which His crucifixion outside the gate of Jerusalem is a type. for--reason why they who serve the tabernacle, are excluded from share in Christ; because His sacrifice is not like one of those sacrifices in which they had a share but answers to one which…Read the comment

Topics related to Hebrews 13:12

• Atonement
• Blood
• Gates
• Jesus, the Christ
• Offerings
• Sanctification
• Types

In the dictionaries

• Jesus
• Jesus, Jesus Christ, Christ Jesus
• Altar
• Bed
• Calvary
• Continuing
• Encamp
• Entertain
• Forgetful
• Gate

Commentaries on Hebrews 13

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings