By so much is Jesus made a surety of a better testament.

7:23. And the others indeed were made many priests, because by reason of
death they were not suffered to continue:

Many priests, etc... The apostle notes this difference between the high
priests of the law, and our high priest Jesus Christ; that they being
removed by death, made way for their successors; whereas our Lord Jesus
is a priest for ever, and hath no successor; but liveth and concurreth
for ever with his ministers, the priests of the new testament, in all
their functions. Also, that no one priest of the law, nor all of them
together, could offer that absolute sacrifice of everlasting redemption,
which our one high priest Jesus Christ has offered once, and for ever.

7:24. But this, for that he continueth for ever, hath an everlasting
priesthood:

7:25. Whereby he is able also to save for ever them that come to God by
him; always living to make intercession for us.

Make intercession... Christ, as man, continually maketh intercession for
us, by representing his passion to his Father.

7:26. For it was fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy,
innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the
heavens:

7:27. Who needeth not daily (as the other priests) to offer sacrifices,
first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once,
in offering himself.

7:28. For the law maketh men priests, who have infirmity: but the word
of the oath (which was since the law) the Son who is perfected for
evermore.

Hebrews Chapter 8

More of the excellence of the priesthood of Christ and of the New
Testament.

8:1. Now of the things which we have spoken, this is the sum: We have
such an high priest who is set on the right hand of the throne of
majesty in the heavens,

8:2. A minister of the holies and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord
hath pitched, and not man.

The holies... That is, the sanctuary.

8:3. For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices:
wherefore it is necessary that he also should have some thing to offer.

8:4. If then he were on earth, he would not be a priest: seeing that
there would be others to offer gifts according to the law.

If then he were on earth, etc... That is, if he were not of a higher
condition than the Levitical order of earthly priests, and had not
another kind of sacrifice to offer, he should be excluded by them from
the priesthood, and its func