Hebrews 9:11

Christ’s Service in the Heavenly Sanctuary

9:11 But now Christ has come 1  as the high priest of the good things to come. He passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation,

Hebrews 9:23-24

9:23 So it was necessary for the sketches 2  of the things in heaven to be purified with these sacrifices, 3  but the heavenly things themselves required 4  better sacrifices than these. 9:24 For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made with hands – the representation 5  of the true sanctuary 6  – but into heaven itself, and he appears now in God’s presence for us.

1 tn Grk “But Christ, when he came,” introducing a sentence that includes all of Heb 9:11-12. The main construction is “Christ, having come…, entered…, having secured…,” and everything else describes his entrance.

2 tn Or “prototypes,” “outlines,” referring to the earthly sanctuary. See Heb 8:5 above for the prior use of this term.

3 tn Grk “with these”; in the translation the referent (sacrifices) has been specified for clarity.

4 tn Grk “the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.”

5 tn Or “prefiguration.”

6 tn The word “sanctuary” is not in the Greek text at this point, but has been supplied for clarity.