The Fitting High Priest and the Once-for-All Offering

Jesus is the high priest God’s people need: holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens. Unlike ordinary high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices day after day first for his own sins and then for the people’s. He offered once for all when he offered himself. Hebrews summarizes the contrast as law-appointed priests marked by weakness versus the oath-appointed Son made complete forever. This prepares the long sanctuary-and-sacrifice argument that follows.