20. Also, it is important that God made a promise with an oath when he made Jesus high priest. When those other men became priests, there was no oath.
21. But Christ became a priest with God’s oath. God said to him, “The Lord has made a promise with an oath and will not change his mind: ‘You are a priest forever.’” Psalm 110:4
22. So this means that Jesus is the guarantee of a better agreement from God to his people.
23. Also, when one of those other priests died, he could not continue being a priest. So there were many of those priests.
24. But Jesus lives forever. He will never stop serving as a priest.
25. So Christ can save those who come to God through him. Christ can do this forever, because he always lives and is ready to help people when they come before God.
26. So Jesus is the kind of high priest we need. He is holy. He has no sin in him. He is pure and not influenced by sinners. And he is raised above the heavens.
27. He is not like those other priests. They had to offer sacrifices every day, first for their own sins, and then for the sins of the people. But Jesus doesn’t need to do that. He offered only one sacrifice for all time. He offered himself.
28. The law chooses high priests who are men and have the same weaknesses that all people have. But after the law, God spoke the oath that made his Son high priest. And that Son, made perfect through suffering, will serve forever.