Hebrews 13:12

Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered without the gate.

The author is still dealing with the atonement provided by the blood of Jesus (see under Hebrews 9:8). It is the necessity of Jesus' suffering without the gate, or beyond the camp, that is stressed here. That necessity arose from the typical significance of burning the bodies of the animals used in sin offerings, at a place outside the camp of Israel, and later outside the city. The great Antitype fulfilled that very pertinent detail in the place of his sufferings outside the city of Jerusalem. Macknight noted that

The Israelites' having cities to live in at the time of our Lord's suffering, "without the gate" was the same as "without the camp" in the wilderness. Wherefore, criminals, being regarded as unclean, were always put to death without the gates of their cities. In this manner, our Lord and his martyr Stephen suffered.[3]