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Melchizedek Is Greater Than Abraham
This Melchizedek was king of the city of Salem and also a priest of God Most High. When Abraham was returning home after winning a great battle against the kings, Melchizedek met him and blessed him.
This Melchizedek was king of the city of Salem and also a priest of God Most High. When Abraham was returning home after winning a great battle against the kings, Melchizedek met him and blessed him.
Melchizedek and Abraham
For this Melchisedec, King of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from smiting the kings, and blessed him;
For this Melchisedec, King of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from smiting the kings, and blessed him;
Then Abraham took a tenth of all he had captured in battle and gave it to Melchizedek. The name Melchizedek means “king of justice,” and king of Salem means “king of peace.”
to whom Abraham gave also the tenth portion of all; first being interpreted King of righteousness, and then also King of Salem, which is King of peace;
There is no record of his father or mother or any of his ancestors — no beginning or end to his life. He remains a priest forever, resembling the Son of God.
without father, without mother, without genealogy; having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but assimilated to the Son of God, abides a priest continually.
Consider then how great this Melchizedek was. Even Abraham, the great patriarch of Israel, recognized this by giving him a tenth of what he had taken in battle.
Now consider how great this [personage] was, to whom [even] the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth out of the spoils.
And they indeed from among the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have commandment to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is from their brethren, though these are come out of the loins of Abraham:
But Melchizedek, who was not a descendant of Levi, collected a tenth from Abraham. And Melchizedek placed a blessing upon Abraham, the one who had already received the promises of God.
but he who has no genealogy from them has tithed Abraham, and blessed him who had the promises.
And without question, the person who has the power to give a blessing is greater than the one who is blessed.
But beyond all gainsaying, the inferior is blessed by the better.
The priests who collect tithes are men who die, so Melchizedek is greater than they are, because we are told that he lives on.
And here dying men receive tithes; but there [one] of whom the witness is that he lives;
In addition, we might even say that these Levites — the ones who collect the tithe — paid a tithe to Melchizedek when their ancestor Abraham paid a tithe to him.
and, so to speak, through Abraham, Levi also, who received tithes, has been made to pay tithes.
For although Levi wasn’t born yet, the seed from which he came was in Abraham’s body when Melchizedek collected the tithe from him.
For he was yet in the loins of his father when Melchisedec met him.
Jesus a Priest Like Melchizedek
If indeed then perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, for the people had their law given to them in connexion with *it*, what need [was there] still that a different priest should arise according to the order of Melchisedec, and not be named after the order of Aaron?
If indeed then perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, for the people had their law given to them in connexion with *it*, what need [was there] still that a different priest should arise according to the order of Melchisedec, and not be named after the order of Aaron?
And if the priesthood is changed, the law must also be changed to permit it.
For, the priesthood being changed, there takes place of necessity a change of law also.
For the priest we are talking about belongs to a different tribe, whose members have never served at the altar as priests.
For he, of whom these things are said, belongs to a different tribe, of which no one has [ever] been attached to the service of the altar.
What I mean is, our Lord came from the tribe of Judah, and Moses never mentioned priests coming from that tribe.
For it is clear that our Lord has sprung out of Juda, as to which tribe Moses spake nothing as to priests.
Jesus Is like Melchizedek
This change has been made very clear since a different priest, who is like Melchizedek, has appeared.
And it is yet more abundantly evident, since a different priest arises according to the similitude of Melchisedec,
Jesus became a priest, not by meeting the physical requirement of belonging to the tribe of Levi, but by the power of a life that cannot be destroyed.
who has been constituted not according to law of fleshly commandment, but according to power of indissoluble life.
For it is borne witness, *Thou* art a priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedec.
Yes, the old requirement about the priesthood was set aside because it was weak and useless.
For there is a setting aside of the commandment going before for its weakness and unprofitableness,
For the law never made anything perfect. But now we have confidence in a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
(for the law perfected nothing,) and the introduction of a better hope by which we draw nigh to God.
This new system was established with a solemn oath. Aaron’s descendants became priests without such an oath,
And by how much [it was] not without the swearing of an oath;
(for they are become priests without the swearing of an oath, but he with the swearing of an oath, by him who said, as to him, The Lord has sworn, and will not repent [of it], *Thou* [art] priest for ever [according to the order of Melchisedec];)
Because of this oath, Jesus is the one who guarantees this better covenant with God.
by so much Jesus became surety of a better covenant.
There were many priests under the old system, for death prevented them from remaining in office.
And they have been many priests, on account of being hindered from continuing by death;
But because Jesus lives forever, his priesthood lasts forever.
but he, because of his continuing for ever, has the priesthood unchangeable.
Whence also he is able to save completely those who approach by him to God, always living to intercede for them.
For such a high priest became us, holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and become higher than the heavens:
Unlike those other high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices every day. They did this for their own sins first and then for the sins of the people. But Jesus did this once for all when he offered himself as the sacrifice for the people’s sins.
who has not day by day need, as the high priests, first to offer up sacrifices for his own sins, then [for] those of the people; for this he did once for all [in] having offered up himself.
The law appointed high priests who were limited by human weakness. But after the law was given, God appointed his Son with an oath, and his Son has been made the perfect High Priest forever.
For the law constitutes men high priests, having infirmity; but the word of the swearing of the oath which [is] after the law, a Son perfected for ever.