Hebrews 12:24 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁴And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

Hebrews 12:24 —

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Hebrews 9:15
And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Hebrews 11:28
Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
Hebrews 11:4
By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
Hebrews 8:6
But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.
Matthew 26:28
For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 18-29)

Here the apostle goes on to engage the professing Hebrews to perseverance in their Christian course and conflict, and not to relapse again into Judaism. This he does by showing them how much the state of the gospel church differs from that of the Jewish church, and how much it resembles the state of the church in heaven, and on both accounts demands and deserves our diligence, patience, and persev…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 24)

24. new--not the usual term (kaine) applied to the Christian covenant (He 9:15), which would mean new as different from, and superseding the old; but Greek, “nea,” “recent,” “lately established,” having the “freshness of youth,” as opposed to age. The mention of Jesus, the Perfecter of our faith (He 12:2), and Himself perfected through sufferings and death, in His resurrection and ascension (He 2:…