1Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this: we have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, 2a servant of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched, not man. 3For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer. 4For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law, 5who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, “See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.” 6But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.
7For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. 8For finding fault with them, he said,
“Behold, the days are coming”, says the Lord,
“that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
9not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers
in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt;
for they didn’t continue in my covenant,
and I disregarded them,” says the Lord.
10“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days,” says the Lord:
“I will put my laws into their mind;
I will also write them on their heart.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
11They will not teach every man his fellow citizen
and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’
for all will know me,
from their least to their greatest.
12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness.
I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more.”
13In that he says, “A new covenant”, he has made the first obsolete. But that which is becoming obsolete and grows aged is near to vanishing away.
That "Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures" is the Gospel according to 1 Corinthians 15:1, 3-4. The books called Gospels identify Jesus of Nazareth as the promised Messiah and Son of God. His sinless life made His death in the place of sinners the basis of our justification by faith alone. Nowhere in the Gospel of Luke is the death of Christ as a substitute for sinners more clearly depicted than in Luke 22:20, when, at the last Passover, Jesus said: "This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood." The wine of the Lord's Supper pictures the blood of Jesus' death on the cross. It was "poured out" as a voluntary sacrifice to God the Father, satisfying His justice as full payment of the penalty for the sins of the world (John 1:29). The words "For you," indicate the substitutionary nature of the Lord's self-sacrifice. Theologians differ as to whether "for you" is limited to the elect for whom Christ's death actually secures salvation, or whether "for you" applies to all people as the means by which all people are now able to believe. The words "new covenant in My blood," mean that the bloody death of Christ, pictured by the wine, inaugurates the enjoyment of blessings of the new covenant of Jeremiah 31:31, on behalf of those who believe in Jesus (see Heb 8:8, 13; 9:11-28).