Krist je Veliki svećenik Novoga saveza
1Glavno u ovom izlaganju je: imamo Velikoga svećenika koji sjedi na počasnome mjestu, Bogu zdesna na nebesima. 2On je bogoslužnik u svetome šatoru, na pravome mjestu bogoslužja koje nisu načinile ljudske ruke, nego Bog.
3A kako svaki veliki svećenik treba prinositi darove i žrtve, i naš Veliki svećenik trebao je nešto prinijeti. 4Da je on na zemlji, ne bi ni bio svećenik jer već postoje oni koji prema Zakonu prinose darove. 5Oni služe na mjestu bogoslužja koje je samo slika, samo sjena onoga nebeskoga. Jer kad se Mojsije spremao napraviti Šator, Bog ga je upozorio: “Pazi! Načini sve prema uzorku koji ti je pokazan na gori!”8:5 Izlazak 25:40; 26:30. 6Ali naš je Veliki svećenik dobio uzvišenije bogoslužje od onih koji služe pod starim Zakonom jer je on posrednik boljega saveza s Bogom, ozakonjenoga na boljim obećanjima.
7Da je prvi savez bio besprijekoran, ne bi ga trebalo zamijeniti drugim. 8Ali sam mu je Bog našao zamjerku. Rekao je, naime:
“Doći će dan, veli Gospodin,
kad ću sklopiti novi savez
s narodom Izraela i Jude.
9Taj savez neće biti poput onoga
što sam ga sklopio s njihovim precima
kad sam ih uzeo za ruku
i izveo ih iz egipatske zemlje.
Nisu ostali vjerni mojem savezu
i zato sam im okrenuo leđa.
10Ali ovo je savez koji ću učiniti
s izraelskim narodom tog dana:
stavit ću svoje zakone u njihovu pamet
da ih mogu razumjeti,
i upisat ću ih u njihova srca
da ih mogu poštivati.
Ja ću biti njihov Bog,
a oni moj narod.
11I neće više morati učiti svoje susjede
niti svoju obitelj govoreći:
‘Spoznaj Gospodina!’
Svi će me, od najmanjega do najvećega, već poznavati,
12jer oprostit ću njihova bezakonja
i nikada se više neću sjećati njihovih grijeha.”8:8-12 Jeremija 31:31-34.
13To što Bog govori o novome savezu znači da je onaj prvi zastario. On je dakle blizu nestanka.
1Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; 2A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. 3For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. 4For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law: 5Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount. 6But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. 7For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. 8For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: 9Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. 10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: 11And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. 12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. 13In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
