2 Otherwise, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshippers would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins.
3 But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins.
4 It is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
5 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said:‘Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,but a body you prepared for me;
6 with burnt offerings and sin offeringsyou were not pleased.
7 Then I said, “Here I am – it is written about me in the scroll –I have come to do your will, my God.” ’
8 First he said, ‘Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them’ – though they were offered in accordance with the law.