Hebrews 7:17

¹⁷And the psalmist pointed this out when he prophesied, “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”d

Hebrews 7 presents the most extended biblical argument for the superiority of Christ's priesthood over the Levitical order. The chapter centers on Melchizedek, the mysterious priest-king who appears in Genesis 14, and interprets his priesthood as a type of Christ's eternal, non-here