Heb 9:11-12 | NETfull | STEP | But now Christ has come 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 9:11-12

Christ’s Service in the Heavenly Sanctuary

11 But now Christ has come ^{▼▼ 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.} 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, 12 and he entered once for all into the most holy place not by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood, and so he himself secured ^{▼▼ This verb occurs in the Greek middle voice, which here intensifies the role of the subject, Christ, in accomplishing the action: “he alone secured”; “he and no other secured.”} eternal redemption.