Hebrews 13 · Verse 12

Hebrews 13:12

Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.
Hebrews 13:12, King James Version

Hebrews 13:12 in other translations

BSBAnd so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate, to sanctify the people by His own blood.
WEBTherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered outside of the gate.
ASVWherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people through his own blood, suffered without the gate.
YLTWherefore, also Jesus--that he might sanctify through his own blood the people--without the gate did suffer;
DARBYWherefore also Jesus, that he might sanctify the people by his own blood, suffered without the gate:
BBEFor this reason Jesus was put to death outside the walls, so that he might make the people holy by his blood.
WebsterWherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.

What does Hebrews 13:12 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Hebrews 13:11-12

11-12. For just as "the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by ... are burned without the camp," so "Jesus also that ... suffered without the gate" of ceremonial Judaism, of which His crucifixion outside the gate of Jerusalem is a type. for--reason why they who serve the tabernacle, are excluded from share in Christ; because His sacrifice is not like one of those sacrifices in which they…

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Barnes' Notes
Verse 12. Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood. That there might be a conformity between his death for sin and the sacrifices which typified it. It is implied here that it was voluntary on the part of Jesus that he suffered out of the city; that is, it was so ordered by Providence that it should be so. This was secured by his being put to death as the result of a judicial trial, and not by popular tumult. See Notes on Isa 53:8. If he had been killed in a tumult, it is possible that it might have been done as in other cases, (comp. the case of Zacharias, son of Barachias, Mt 23:35,) even at the altar is he was subjected, however, to a judicial process, his death was effected with more deliberation, and in the usual form. Hence he was conducted out of the city, because no criminal was executed within the walls of Jerusalem.

Without the gate. Without the gate of Jerusalem, Jn 19:17,18. The place where he was put to death was called Golgotha, the place of a skull, and hence the Latin word which we commonly use in speaking of it, Calvary, Lk 23:33; comp. Mt 27:33. Calvary, as it is now shown, is within the walls of Jerusalem; but there is no reason to believe that is the place where the Lord Jesus was crucified, for that was outside of the walls of the city. The precise direction from the city is not designated by the sacred writers, nor are there any historical records, or traditional marks, by which it can now be known where the exact place was. All that we know on the subject from the New Testament is, that the name was Golgotha; that the place of the crucifixion and sepulchre were near each other; that they were without the gate, and nigh to the city, and that they were in a frequented spot, Jn 19:20. "This would favour the conclusion that the place was probably upon a great road leading from one of the gates; and such a spot would only be found upon the western or northern sides of the city, on the roads leading towards Joppa or Damascus." See the question about the place of the crucifixion examined at length in Robinson's Bibli. Research., vol. ii., pp. 69--80, and Bibliotheca Sacra, No. 1.

(*) "sanctify" "make expiation for" (b) "without the gate" Jn 19:17,18

Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 12 That he might sanctify the people - That he might consecrate them to God, and make an atonement for their sins, he suffered without the gate at Jerusalem, as the sin-offering was consumed without the camp when the tabernacle abode in the wilderness. Perhaps all this was typical of the abolition of the Jewish sacrifices, and the termination of the whole Levitical system of worship. He left the city, denounced its final destruction, and abandoned it to its fate; and suffered without the gate to bring the Gentiles to God.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Hebrews 13:7-15

The instructions and examples of ministers, who honourably and comfortably closed their testimony, should be particularly remembered by survivors. And though their ministers were some dead, others dying, yet the great Head and High Priest of the church, the Bishop of their souls, ever lives, and is ever the same. Christ is the same in the Old Testament day. as in the gospel day, and will be so to his people for…

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Hebrews 13:12 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

ΔιὸDioThereforeG1352
καὶkaialsoG2532
Ἰησοῦς,IēsousJesus,G2424
ἵναinaso thatG2443
ἁγιάσῃhagiasēhe may sanctifyG37
διὰdiathroughG1223
τοῦtoutheG3588
ἰδίουidiouownG2398
αἵματοςaimatosbloodG129
τὸνtontheG3588
λαόν,laonpeople,G2992
ἔξωexōoutsideG1854
τῆςtēstheG3588
πύληςpulēsgateG4439
ἔπαθεν.epathensuffered.G3958

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Hebrews 13:12

  • Hebrews 9:12-14

    Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

  • John 19:17-18

    And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.

  • Mark 15:20-24

    And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him out to crucify him. And they compel one Simon a Cyrenian, who passed by, coming out of the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to bear his cross. And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, The place of a skull. And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received it not. …

  • 1 Corinthians 6:11

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

  • Acts 7:58

    And cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man’s feet, whose name was Saul.

  • Hebrews 10:29

    Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought 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?

  • Numbers 15:36

    And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the Lord commanded Moses.

  • Leviticus 24:23

    And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses.

  • John 19:34

    But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.

  • Ephesians 5:26

    That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

  • 1 John 5:6-8

    This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth. For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.

  • John 17:19

    And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
sanctify.
2:11; 9:13,14,18,19; 10:29; Joh 17:19; 19:34; 1Co 6:11; Eph 5:26
1Jo 5:6-8
suffered.
Le 24:23; Nu 15:36; Jos 7:24; Mr 15:20-24; Joh 19:17,18; Ac 7:58

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Context

  • Hebrews 13:11

    For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.

  • Hebrews 13:12

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

  • Hebrews 13:13

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

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Hebrews 13:12 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Por lo cual también Jesús, para santificar al pueblo por su propia sangre, padeció fuera de la puerta.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
C’est pourquoi aussi Jésus, afin qu’il sanctifie le peuple par son propre sang, a souffert hors de la porte.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Darum hat auch Jesus, auf daß er durch sein eigenes Blut das Volk heiligte, außerhalb des Tores gelitten.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Propter quod et Jesus, ut sanctificaret per suum sanguinem populum, extra portam passus est.