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Then I said, ‘See, I have come to do your will, to lay down my life, just as the Scriptures said that I would.’”

After Christ said this about not being satisfied with the various sacrifices and offerings required under the old system, he then added, “Here I am. I have come to give my life.”

He cancels the first system in favor of a far better one.

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Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll(A)
    I have come to do your will, my God.’”[a](B)

First he said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them”(C)—though they were offered in accordance with the law. Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.”(D) He sets aside the first to establish the second.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 10:7 Psalm 40:6-8 (see Septuagint)