14 quanto più il sangue di Cristo che mediante lo Spirito eterno ha offerto se stesso puro d’ogni colpa a Dio, purificherà la vostra coscienza dalle opere morte per servire all’Iddio vivente?15 Ed è per questa ragione che egli è mediatore d’un nuovo patto, affinché, avvenuta la sua morte per la redenzione delle trasgressioni commesse sotto il primo patto, i chiamati ricevano l’eterna eredità promessa.16 Infatti, dove c’è un testamento, bisogna che sia accertata la morte del testatore.17 Perché un testamento è valido quand’è avvenuta la morte; poiché non ha valore finché vive il testatore.18 Ond’è che anche il primo patto non è stato inaugurato senza sangue.19 Difatti, quando tutti i comandamenti furono secondo la legge proclamati da Mosè a tutto il popolo, egli prese il sangue de’ vitelli e de’ becchi con acqua, lana scarlatta ed issopo, e ne asperse il libro stesso e tutto il popolo,20 dicendo: Questo è il sangue del patto che Dio ha ordinato sia fatto con voi.21 E parimente asperse di sangue il tabernacolo e tutti gli arredi del culto.22 E secondo la legge, quasi ogni cosa è purificata con sangue; e senza spargimento di sangue non c’è remissione.23 Era dunque necessario che le cose raffiguranti quelle nei cieli fossero purificate con questi mezzi, ma le cose celesti stesse doveano esserlo con sacrifici più eccellenti di questi.24 Poiché Cristo non è entrato in un santuario fatto con mano, figura del vero; ma nel cielo stesso, per comparire ora, al cospetto di Dio, per noi;
John 3
1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”3 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”4 Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?”5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”9 Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?”10 Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things?11 Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony.12 If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things?13 No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.16 “For God so loved the world,
that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.21 But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”
