Hebrews 13

I love the imagery in verses 11-14:

¹¹ The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering, but the bodies are burned outside the camp. ¹² And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood. ¹³ Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore.

Under the sacrificial system the blood of the animal was carried into the Most Holy Place and it was poured out as an offering symbolizing the loss of an innocent life to atone for the shortcomings of another. This was unholy man's response to a holy God. The unholy was made to be holy by bringing it into the Holy Place. But when Jesus gave his life for us, he shed his blood in the most unholy place imaginable. The holy was poured out in an unholy place so unholy people could become holy wherever they were. The unholy thief on the cross was made holy in an unholy place because this was Holy God reaching out to unholy man in his unholiness. That is the relationship we have with Jesus today.