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Why was Jesus Baptized? Priesthood Jesus’s baptism is part of the ritual for priesthood (Jesus is of the order of Melchizedek) and identification with sinners in need of regeneration. Exodus 29:4 (NKJV) “And Aaron and his sons you shall bring to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and you shall wash them with…
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Hebrews 10:11-18 NKJV – “And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, 13 from that time waiting till His enemies are made His…
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Hebrews 9:23-28 (NKJV) Therefore it was necessary that the copies of the things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24 For Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, now…
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Hebrews 9:11-15 NKJV “But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. 12 Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for…
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Hebrews 9:1-10 (NKJV) Then indeed, even the first covenant had ordinances of divine service and the earthly sanctuary. 2 For a tabernacle was prepared: the first part, in which was the lampstand, the table, and the showbread, which is called the sanctuary; 3 and behind the second veil, the part of the tabernacle which…
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Hebrews 8:1-7, TCENT “Now the main point of what we are saying is this: We have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, 2 a minister of the holy places and the true tabernacle, which was set up by the Lord, not…
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Hebrews 7:20-28, TCENT “And none of this happened without an oath. Aaron’s descendants become priests without an oath, 21 but Jesus was made a priest with an oath by the one who said to him, “The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind, ‘Yoʋ are a priest forever according to the order…