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2:17 high priest High priests interceded for God’s people by offering sacrifices, such as on the Day of Atonement, and performing other rituals (see Lev 23:26–32; note on Heb 9:7).
make atonement for the sins This sacrificial language aligns with other phrases that speak of Christ as making purification (1:3), removing sin (9:26), and bearing the sins of many (9:28).
Barry, J. D., Mangum, D., Brown, D. R., Heiser, M. S., Custis, M., Ritzema, E., … Bomar, D. (2012, 2016). Faithlife Study Bible (Heb 2:17). Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
The point of the present passage is that Jesus, the older brother of a much larger family, could and did come to where his siblings were, wallowing in the land of sin and death. He identified with them, shared their fate, and thereby rescued them from it. Above all other passages in early Christian writings, this one speaks most fully about Jesus as the oldest brother, the firstborn, of a large family (Paul mentions this too, for instance in Romans 8:29, but doesn’t develop it so thoroughly). It encourages us to see Jesus not as the kind of older brother whom we resent because he’s always getting things right and being successful while we’re always getting things wrong and failing, but as the kind of older brother who, without a trace of patronizing or looking down his nose at us, comes to find us where we are, out of sheer love and goodness of heart, and to help us out of the mess.
Wright, T. (2004). Hebrews for Everyone (p. 19). London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
Passage Guide | Hebrews 2:17 › Cross References
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| The Lexham English Bible | |
| 1 Samuel 3:14 | Therefore I swore to the house of Eli that the iniquity of the house of Eli would not be atoned for by sacrifice or by offering forever.” |
| Psalm 22:22 | I will tell your name to my brothers; inside the assembly I will praise you. |
| Daniel 9:24 | “Seventy weeks is decreed for your people and for your holy city, to put an end to the transgression and to seal up sin and to make atonement for guilt and to bring in everlasting righteousness and to seal vision and prophet and to anoint the most holy place. |
| Sirach 3:3 | |
| Sirach 3:30 | |
| Sirach 20:28 | |
| Sirach 28:5 | |
| Sirach 34:23 | |
| Luke 18:13 | But the tax collector, standing far away, did not want even to raise his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ |
| Romans 3:25 | whom God made publicly available as the mercy seat through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness, because of the passing over of previously committed sins, |
| Romans 8:3 | For what was impossible for the law, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, |
| Romans 15:17 | Therefore I have a reason for boasting in Christ Jesus regarding the things concerning God. |
| 2 Corinthians 5:21 | He made the one who did not know sin to be sin on our behalf, in order that we could become the righteousness of God in him. |
| Galatians 4:4 | But when the fullness of time came, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, |
| Philippians 2:7 | but emptied himself by taking the form of a slave, by becoming in the likeness of people. And being found in appearance like a man, |
| Hebrews 2:14 | Therefore, since the children share in blood and flesh, he also in like manner shared in these same things, in order that through death he could destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, |
| Hebrews 2:17 | Therefore he was obligated to be made like his brothers in all respects, in order that he could become a merciful and faithful high priest in the things relating to God, in order to make atonement for the sins of the people. |
| Hebrews 3:1 | Therefore, holy brothers, sharers in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession, |
| Hebrews 4:14–5:10 | 14 Therefore, because we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession. 15 For we do not have a high priest who is not able to sympathize with our weaknesses, but who has been tempted in all things in the same way, without sin. 16 Therefore let us approach with confidence to the throne of grace, in order that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. 5:1 For every high priest taken from among men is appointed on behalf of people in the things relating to God, in order that he can offer both gifts and sacrifices on behalf of sins, 2 being able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and led astray, since he himself also is surrounded by weakness, 3 and because of it he is obligated to offer sacrifices for sins for himself also, as well as for the people. 4 And someone does not take for himself the honor, but is called by God, just as Aaron also was. 5 Thus also Christ did not glorify himself to become high priest, but the one who said to him, “You are my Son, today I have begotten you,” 6 just as also in another place he says, “You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek,” 7 who in the days of his flesh offered up both prayers and supplications, with loud crying and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard as a result of his reverence. 8 Although he was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered, 9 and being perfected, he became the source of eternal salvation to all those who obey him, 10 being designated by God a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek. |
| Hebrews 6:20 | where Jesus, the forerunner for us, entered, because he became a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. |
| Hebrews 7:26–8:1 | 26 For a high priest such as this indeed is fitting for us, holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and having become exalted above the heavens, 27 who does not need every day like the former high priests to offer up sacrifices for his own sins and then for the sins of the people, because he did this once for all when he offered up himself. 28 For the law appoints men as high priests who have weakness, but the statement of the oath, after the law, appoints a Son, who is made perfect forever. 8:1 Now this is the main point in what has been said: we have a high priest such as this, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, |
| Hebrews 8:3 | For every high priest is appointed in order to offer both gifts and sacrifices; therefore it was necessary for this one also to have something that he offers. |
| Hebrews 9:11 | But Christ has arrived as a high priest of the good things to come. Through the greater and more perfect tent not made by hands, that is, not of this creation, |
| Hebrews 10:21 | and since we have a great priest over the house of God, |
| 1 John 2:2 | and he is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. |
| 1 John 4:10 | In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. |
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