– In the AT, ritual offering to God that was characterized by the immolation of an animal victim or by the delivery of the thing offered:
Gen 4,3-4 : After some time, Cain offered the fruits of the earth as an oblation to the Lord.
Num 29:39 : Such are the sacrifices which you shall offer to the Lord in your solemnities, in addition to your vows.
Leviticus 1–7 : When one of you makes an offering to the LORD, it shall be from among the greater or lesser cattle that you shall offer.
Ex 16 : Aaron will enter the sanctuary: he will take a bull for the sacrifice for sin and a ram for the burnt offering.
– Performed on simple altars:
Gen 33:20 : He built an altar there, which he called El, the God of Israel.
Gen 35 :1 : Come on, go up to Bethel and stay there, and build an altar there to the God who revealed himself to you.
– With the arrival of the kings, it started to be performed only in the temple:
Deut 12,2-3 : The places where the peoples dispossessed by you have worshiped their gods, on the high mountains and hills.
2 Kings 23:19 : Josiah thus destroyed all the high place sanctuaries that were in the cities of Samaria.
– The prophets warned of the need to practice justice for the effectiveness of sacrifices:
Is 1:11 : I have had enough of burnt offerings of lambs and the fat of fattened calves.
Jer 6:20 : Your burnt offerings do not please me, nor do your sacrifices please me.
Amos 5:22 : When you offer me burnt offerings […], I find no pleasure in them, and I do not care about your sacrifices.
Mal 1,11 : In every place incense, sacrifices and pure oblations are offered to my name.
– Necessary condition also in NT:
Mt 5,17 : Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the prophets. I did not come to abolish them, but to bring them to perfection.
Rom 3:31 : Do we then destroy the law through faith? Not at all. On the contrary, we give it all its strength.
Rom 12 :1 : To offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God: this is your spiritual worship.
Gal 3:24 : Thus the Law became our pedagogue charged with leading us to Christ, so that we might be justified by faith.
Phil 4:18 : It was a sweet perfume, a sacrifice that God accepts with pleasure.
Heb 8,2 : Minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle, erected by the Lord, and not by men.
Heb 10:1 : It is utterly powerless to perfect those who attend the sacrifices that are renewed.
Heb 13:15-16 : Through him let us offer sacrifices of praise to God without ceasing.
1Pt 2,5 : And like other living stones, you also become the materials of this spiritual building.
– Jesus offered himself on the cross in sacrifice once and for all:
Mt 20:28 : Just as the Son of Man came, not to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom.
Mt 26:28 : This is my blood, the blood of the New Covenant, shed for many men in remission of sins.
Mk 10:45 : The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.
Jn 1:29 : Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.
John 8:46 : Who among you will accuse me of sin? If I tell you the truth, why don’t you believe me?
Rom 5 :6 : Indeed, when we were still weak, Christ died in due time for the ungodly.
1Tm 2,6 : Who gave himself as a ransom for all. Such is the fact, attested in its time.
Heb 7,27-29 : Who has no need, like the other high priests, to offer sacrifices every day.
Heb 9,12-14.28-29 : With his own blood, he entered the sanctuary once and for all, purchasing for us an eternal redemption.
Heb 10,10.12.14 : We have been sanctified once for all, through the oblation of the body of Jesus Christ.
1Pt 1,18-19 : You were redeemed from your vain way of living, […] but by the precious blood of Christ.
1Jn 3 :5 : You know that he (Jesus) appeared to take away sins, and that in him there is no sin.
Rev 5,6-9 : You were slain and redeemed for God, at the price of your blood, men from every tribe, language, people and race.
