The present section of the letter all comes under the heading formed by the previous section, in which the writer quoted Jeremiah 31.31–34 in full, focusing on the fact that what has come about through Jesus the Messiah is the long-awaited‘new covenant’, the new bond between God and his people through which, at last, sins would be

The second element is that Jesus has done all this specifically through his death.

The main point to which Hebrews now comes – in one sense, this is the very heart of the letter – is that God has all along had a master plan for how the world would be put to rights. He has envisaged from the beginning the way in which the wickedness and frailty of his human creatures would be dealt with,

The point of the present passage is that Jesus, the older brother of a much larger family, could and did come to where his siblings were, wallowing in the land of sin and death. He identified with them, shared their fate, and thereby rescued them from it.

could be ‘put into proper order’ (verse 10).

First, he sees Jesus as the pioneer:

He has

Some of the temporary roadways are still standing, but you shouldn’t mistake them for the real thing. His readers need to know that they can now travel by the main highway straight into the heart of the city. If anyone tells them they should still use the old roads, the answer is not that those old roads were a bad thing, but that they were a good

In Jesus the great high priest, God has put things into proper order at last.