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Hebrews 13:12

What does Hebrews 13:12 mean?

A plain-English look at Hebrews 13:12 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

What Hebrews 13:12 means

Jesus fulfilled the pattern: to sanctify the people through his own blood, he suffered outside Jerusalem’s gate. His crucifixion, both sacrificial and shameful, aligns with the old offerings whose bodies were burned “without the camp.” The purpose was sanctification—setting the people apart to God—accomplished not by animal blood but by his. This verse brings the letter’s theology to its practical edge: the saving work of Christ involved rejection and disgrace. Therefore, holiness and nearness to God now come through a Redeemer who went to the place of exclusion to bring us in.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

For this reason Jesus was put to death outside the walls, so that he might make the people holy by his blood.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Wherefore, also Jesus--that he might sanctify through <FI>his<Fi> own blood the people--without the gate did suffer;

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

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

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

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

Context

After recalling the Levitical pattern (v.11), the author identifies its fulfillment in Jesus’ suffering outside the gate (v.12). The typology grounds a summons in verse 13: if salvation came through his reproach, then discipleship means going out to him, accepting similar shame. Verse 14 will then reframe this loss as gain by fixing hope on the city to come.

v.11For the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the holy place by the high priest as an offering for sin, are burned without the camp.

v.12This passage

v.13Let us therefore go forth unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Hebrews 10:29

    of how much sorer punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

  • Ephesians 5:26

    that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,

  • Hebrews 9:12

    nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption.

  • 1 John 5:6

    This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood.

  • Leviticus 24:23

    And Moses spake to the children of Israel; and they brought forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. And the children of Israel did as Jehovah commanded Moses.

  • 1 Corinthians 6:11

    And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

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