Today's Verse: Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.

The Holy Bible : New International Version. electronic ed. Grand Rapids : Zondervan, 1996, c1984, S. Heb 3:1

Jesus was both our high priest and an apostle (one sent from God).

Today's Comments: We confess to Jesus, our high priest. We pray through Jesus, our high priest. There is no other high priest. Those who say that we can reach God through any other means than Jesus are deceiving themselves. Tomorrow's Gospel lesson is from Chapter 3 of John and includes John 3:16. Yet, John 3:15 also makes a statement that is often ignored. Looking at them together, we read: ¹⁴Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, ¹⁵that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.^e]">[e] ¹⁶"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,^f]">[f] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. Unless we lift Jesus up, we have no eternal life.