First, the sacrifice was made by the high priest, and then blood was taken from it ... Yet even then St. John saw Jesus as a slain lamb, and witnessed him being worshiped in heaven as such, too.

Christ Is the High Priest The second part of the psalm contains, on the other hand, a priestly prophecy, whose protagonist is once again a king from the line of David (see verse 4-7).

Jesus was designated as the Father's sacrificial lamb and confirmed by a priest. Since John the Baptizer was the first son of Zacharias, who was a priest, John inherited his father's priesthood. In ...

During this blessed time of the year when Christians all over the world commemorate the life, death and resurrection of our conquering Canaan King Jesus Christ, I want to travel back 2000 years ...

The second volume of Pope Benedict XVI's Jesus of Nazareth covers the events in the life of Jesus from his triumphal entry into Jerusalem to his even more triumphal resurrection.

This sacrificial lamb must have no scars, no broken bones, no blemishes — it must be a perfect animal. ... But the second part of the switch to Jesus as the new High Priest was tricky.

This is Dutch artist Gerard van Honthorst’s depiction of Jesus appearing for his trial before High Priest Joseph ben Caiaphas and the Sanhedrin. Van Honthorst lived from 1592-1656. (Courtesy ...

The New Testament gives us many ways to talk about Jesus, but I’ll bet that “high priest” is not a phrase that appears frequently in our Christological vocabularies. I wish it did. The image is so ...

John states that Jesus was first questioned by Annas, Caiaphas’s father-in-law who had previously served as high priest, and as head of the Annas family was probably considered a leading ...