# “Both priest and sacrifice” by N.T. Wright

- Link: https://tollelege.net/2007/08/03/both-priest-and-sacrifice-by-nt-wright/
- Published: 2007-08-03T00:51:22-05:00
- Author: tollelege

“God chose the human race to be the priests of all creation, offering up creation’s
worship to Him and bringing His wise order to it. When humans sinned, God chose 
the nation of Israel to be the priests of the human race, offering up human praise
and putting into operation God’s solution to the problem of sin. Israel herself,
however, was sinful; God chose a family of priests (the sons of Aaron) to be priests
to the nation of priests. The priests themselves failed in their task; God sent 
His own Son to be both priest and sacrifice. The inverted pyramid of priesthood 
gets narrower and narrower until it reaches one point, and the point is Jesus on
the cross. The sacrifice of Jesus is the moment when the human race, in the person
of a single man, offers itself fully to the Creator.”

–N.T. Wright, _Following Jesus: Biblical Reflections on Discipleship_ (Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans, 1994), p. 10.

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