Hebrews 8:5-12 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hebrews 8:1-5

Here is, I. A summary recital of what had been said before concerning the excellency of Christ's priesthood, showing what we have in Christ, where he now resides, and what sanctuary he is the minister of, Heb. 8:1, 2. Observe, 1. What we have in Christ; we have a high priest, and such a high priest as no other people ever had, no age of the world, or of the church, ever produced; all others were but types and shadows of this high priest. He is adequately fitted and absolutely sufficient to all... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hebrews 8:6-13

In this part of the chapter, the apostle illustrates and confirms the superior excellency of the priesthood of Christ above that of Aaron, from the excellency of that covenant, or that dispensation of the covenant of grace, of which Christ was the Mediator (Heb. 8:6): his ministry is more excellent, by how much he is the Mediator of a better covenant. The body and soul too of all divinity (as some observe) consist very much in rightly distinguishing between the two covenants?the covenant of... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Hebrews 8:1-6

8:1-6 The pith of what we are saying is this--it is just such a high priest we possess, a priest who has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of majesty in the heavens, a high priest who is a minister of the sanctuary and of the real tabernacle, which the Lord, and not man, founded. For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices. It is therefore necessary that he should have something which he might offer. If then he had been upon earth, lie would not even have... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Hebrews 8:7-13

8:7-13 For, if the first covenant, which is so well known to you, had been faultless there would have been no need to seek any place for a second one. It is to censure them that he says: "Look you the days are coming, says the Lord. when I will consummate a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be the same as the covenant which I made with their fathers, when I laid my hand on them to lead them forth from the land of Egypt; this must be so because they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 8:5

Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things ,.... Things respecting the person, office, and grace of Christ; the priests themselves were types of him; the places they ministered in were an exemplar of the heavenly places, as the word may be rendered, where Christ is; and the things they ministered were shadows of the good things which are by Christ; and the shadows were mere representations; dark, obscure, glimmering ones, and were fleeting and transitory: as Moses was... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 8:6

But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry ,.... Christ has a ministry, he is the minister of the sanctuary, Hebrews 8:2 he has "obtained" this ministry of his Father; he was called unto it and engaged in it by him; and he has "now" obtained it; for though he was called to it from eternity, it was in time he came an high priest of good things, to come; and his ministry is a more excellent one than that of the priests, who offered gifts according to the law and served to the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 8:7

For if that first covenant had been faultless ,.... Not the covenant of works; that was made in paradise, this on Mount Sinai; that was made with Adam and his posterity, this with the Jews only; that had no mediator, this had one, Moses; that was not dedicated with blood, this was; that had no forgiveness of sin in it, this had; under that saints are not, but they were under this; to be under that was no privilege, but to be under this it was, as to the Israelites, who on this account were... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 8:8

For finding fault with them ,.... Both with the covenant, which had its faults, and with the people who continued not in it, and were therefore disregarded by the Lord, Hebrews 8:9 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 ; the words are cited from Jeremiah 31:31 in which God promises a "new covenant"; so called, not because newly made; for with respect to its original constitution, it was... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 8:9

Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers ,.... The ancestors of the Jews at Mount Sinai: in the day when I took then, by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt ; which is mentioned, not only to observe the time when the former covenant was made with the Israelites, which was just upon their deliverance out of Egypt; but also to show their weakness and inability to have delivered themselves, and the tenderness of God towards them; they were like children, they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 8:10

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel ,.... That is, this is the sum and substance of the covenant, which God promised to make with, or to make manifest and known to his chosen people, the true Israelites, under the Gospel dispensation; or the following are the several articles of that covenant, he proposed to consummate or finish, as before: after those days, saith the Lord ; after the times of the Old Testament, when the Messiah shall be come, and the... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hebrews 8:1-5

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hebrews 8:6-13

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Hebrews 8:1-6

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Hebrews 8:7-13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 8:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 8:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 8:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 8:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 8:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 8:10

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