Hebrews 12:24

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Hebrews 12:24

DISCOURSE: 2340ABEL’S SACRIFICE AND CHRIST’S COMPAREDHebrews 12:22; Hebrews 12:24. Ye are come ……to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.AS the Christian dispensation differs widely from that of Moses as to the manner in which it was promulgated, so does it most essentially differ with respect to the spirit and temper which it is calculated to produce in the minds of men. The terrors of Mount Sinai were suited to impress the Jews with a servile fear; as their... read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Hebrews 12:24

The Voice of the Blood of Christ A Sermon (No. 211) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, August 29, 1858, by the REV. C.H. SPURGEON at the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens "The blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel."-- Hebrews 12:24 OF all substances blood is the most mysterious, and in some senses the most sacred. Scripture teacheth us,--and after all there is very much philosophy in Scripture,--that "the blood is the life thereof,"--that the life lieth in the blood.... read more

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Hebrews 12:24-25

The Blood of Sprinkling (first and second sermons) The Blood of Sprinkling A Sermon (No. 1888) Delivered on Lord's-day Morning, February 28th, 1886, by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Hebrews 12:1-29

Shall we turn now to Hebrews, chapter 12.Wherefore, seeing we are also compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses ( Hebrews 12:1 ),What this does not mean is that the Old Testament saints, which are spoken of in chapter 11, are sitting there in heaven watching the activities on the earth. It doesn't mean that they are just watching us to see how we are going to react and respond and we've got this big gallery up here of Old Testament saints. It does mean that their life of faith and... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 12:1-29

Hebrews 12:1 . Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses. Confessors and martyrs of the ancient church are here supposed to be the spectators of our course, and we are here called upon to follow these veterans of the faith. Their number is such that they are said to be a cloud, like the assembled multitudes seen on special occasions to witness some extraordinary spectacle. Nor is it the celestial host only that are interested in this contest; we are... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Hebrews 12:18-24

Hebrews 12:18-24The mount that might be touchedSinai and ZionI.CHRISTIANITY IS A SPIRITUAL, NOT A MATERIAL, DISPENSATION. “The mount that might be touched”--a palpable mountain: the words indicate that the religion thereon proclaimed was a mass of ritual, legal service, and physical endurance; and not that spiritual surrender, and inner life of holiness, essentially belonging to the gospel. The apostle having elaborated this idea, shows that Christians have left behind them the barren Arabian... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Hebrews 12:24

24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. Ver. 24. That speaketh better things ] Every drop whereof had a tongue to cry for vengeance; whence it is called bloods, in the plural, Genesis 4:10 . But the blood of sprinkling (so Christ’s blood is here called, either in allusion to the blood of the paschal lamb sprinkled on the door posts, Exodus 12:7 , or else to the sprinkling of that blood, of the covenant... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Hebrews 12:24

Jesus: Hebrews 7:22, Hebrews 8:6, Hebrews 8:8, 1 Timothy 2:5 new: Hebrews 13:20, Isaiah 55:3, Jeremiah 31:31-Micah : covenant: or, testament, Hebrews 9:15, Matthew 26:28, Mark 14:24, Luke 22:20 to the blood: Hebrews 9:21, Hebrews 10:22, Hebrews 11:28, Exodus 24:8, 1 Peter 1:2 speaketh: Hebrews 11:4, Genesis 4:10, Matthew 23:35, Luke 11:51 Reciprocal: Exodus 12:22 - a bunch Exodus 12:23 - and will not Exodus 24:6 - the blood he Exodus 29:20 - sprinkle Leviticus 1:5 - sprinkle Leviticus... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Hebrews 12:24

And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.To Jesus, the mediator — Through whom they had been perfected.And to the blood of sprinkling — To all the virtue of his precious blood shed for you, whereby ye are sprinkled from an evil conscience. This blood of sprinkling was the foundation of our Lord's mediatorial office. Here the gradation is at the highest point.Which speaketh better things than that of Abel —... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 12:24

24. Jesus As Moses at Sinai was the mediator of the old covenant, so Jesus at Zion is the mediator of the new. Centrally, this mediator stands in the picture amid the spirits made perfect by the blood. The blood of sprinkling The true cleansing efficacy of the atoning death figured as a sprinkled blood. Bengel has several pages on the physical blood of Jesus, (dubiously followed by Alford in a few lines,) which strike us as a most repulsive superstition. Speaketh The blood ... read more