Jesus

And once more, our present text says, “They will not enter my rest.”

he again fixes a certain day, “Today,” saying through David, so long afterwards, in the text already given, “Today, if you hear God’s voice, don’t harden your hearts.”

For if Y’hoshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later of another “day.”

For the one who has entered God’s rest has also rested from his own works, as God did from his.

Before God, nothing created is hidden, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of him to whom we must render an account.

Therefore, since we have a great cohen gadol who has passed through to the highest heaven, Yeshua, the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we acknowledge as true.

For we do not have a cohen gadol unable to empathize with our weaknesses; since in every respect he was tempted just as we are, the only difference being that he did not sin.

So neither did the Messiah glorify himself to become cohen gadol; rather, it was the One who said to him, “You are my Son; today I have become your Father.”

Also, as he says in another place, “You are a cohen forever, to be compared with Malki-Tzedek.”

During Yeshua’s life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions, crying aloud and shedding tears, to the One who had the power to deliver him from death; and he was heard because of his godliness.

Even though he was the Son, he learned obedience through his sufferings.

And after he had been brought to the goal, he became the source of eternal deliverance to all who obey him,

since he had been proclaimed by God as a cohen gadol to be compared with Malki-Tzedek.

Therefore, leaving behind the initial lessons about the Messiah, let us go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of turning from works that lead to death, trusting God,

and then have fallen away — it is impossible to renew them so that they turn from their sin, as long as for themselves they keep executing the Son of God on the stake all over again and keep holding him up to public contempt.

where a forerunner has entered on our behalf, namely, Yeshua, who has become a cohen gadol forever, to be compared with Malki-Tzedek.

There is no record of his father, mother, ancestry, birth or death; rather, like the Son of God, he continues as a cohen for all time.

The one about whom these things are said belongs to another tribe, from which no one has ever served at the altar;

for everyone knows that our Lord arose out of Y’hudah, and that Moshe said nothing about this tribe when he spoke about cohanim.

For it is stated, “You are a cohen FOREVER, to be compared with Malki-Tzedek.”

What is more, God swore an oath. For no oath was sworn in connection with those who become cohanim now;

but Yeshua became a cohen by the oath which God swore when he said to him, “Adonai has sworn and will not change his mind, ‘You are a cohen forever.’”

Also this shows how much better is the covenant of which Yeshua has become guarantor.

But because he lives forever, his position as cohen does not pass on to someone else;

and consequently, he is totally able to deliver those who approach God through him; since he is alive forever and thus forever able to intercede on their behalf.