Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Wherefore Jesus—In order that the Antitype might fulfil the type.
sanctify—Though not brought into the temple "sanctuary" (Hebrews 13:11) His blood has been brought into the heavenly sanctuary, and "sanctifies the people" (Hebrews 2:11, Hebrews 2:17), by cleansing them from sin, and consecrating them to God.
his own—not blood of animals.
without the gate—of Jerusalem; as if unworthy of the society of the covenant-people. The fiery ordeal of His suffering on the cross, answers to the burning of the victims; thereby His mere fleshly life was completely destroyed, as their bodies were; the second part of His offering was His carrying His blood into the heavenly holiest before God at His ascension, that it should be a perpetual atonement for the world's sin.
For just as "the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by . . . are burned without the camp," so "Jesus also that . . . suffered without the gate" of ceremonial Judaism, of which His crucifixion outside the gate of Jerusalem is a type.
for—reason why they who serve the tabernacle, are excluded from share in Christ; because His sacrifice is not like one of those sacrifices in which they had a share but answers to one which was "wholly burned" outside (the Greek is "burnt completely," "consumed by burning"), and which consequently they could not eat of. Leviticus 6:30, gives the general rule, "No sin offering whereof any of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile withal in the holy place, shall be eaten; it shall be burnt in the fire." The sin offerings are twofold: the outward, whose blood was sprinkled on the outward altar, and of whose bodies the priests might eat; and the inward, the reverse.
the sanctuary—here the Holy of Holies, into which the blood of the sin offering was brought on the day of atonement.
without the camp—in which were the tabernacle and Levitical priests and legal worshippers, during Israel's journey through the wilderness; replaced afterwards by Jerusalem (containing the temple), outside of whose walls Jesus was crucified.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Hebrews 13:12:
Leviticus 4:11
Numbers 19:3-6
Matthew 21:39
Luke 20:15
John 19:17
Acts 7:58
Romans 15:33
Ephesians 5:26
Hebrews 12:24
Revelation 11:8
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