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“Since, then, it remains for some to enter His rest, and since those who formerly heard the good news did not enter because of their disobedience,”

“Unlike the other high priests, He does not need to offer daily sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people; He sacrificed for sin once for all when He offered up Himself.”

“I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was shown mercy.”

“Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus earlier and who himself was one of them, asked,”

“You know that it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you.”

“to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;”

“Confident of this, I planned to visit you first, so that you might receive a double blessing.”

“At this, his neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging began to ask, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?””

“Then what will happen if you see the Son of Man ascend to where He was before?”