Christ's Eternal Priesthood Secured by an Oath

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

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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.’”

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

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Moreover, the present cohanim are many in number, because they are prevented by death from continuing in office.

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

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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.

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This is the kind of cohen gadol that meets our need — holy, without evil, without stain, set apart from sinners and raised higher than the heavens;

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one who does not have the daily necessity, like the other cohanim g’dolim, of offering up sacrifices first for their own sins and only then for those of the people; because he offered one sacrifice, once and for all, by offering up himself.

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For the Torah appoints as cohanim g’dolim men who have weakness; but the text which speaks about the swearing of the oath, a text written later than the Torah, appoints a Son who has been brought to the goal forever.

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