13. For the priest we are talking about belongs to a different tribe, whose members have never served at the altar as priests.
14. What I mean is, our Lord came from the tribe of Judah, and Moses never mentioned priests coming from that tribe.
15. This change has been made very clear since a different priest, who is like Melchizedek, has appeared.
16. Jesus became a priest, not by meeting the physical requirement of belonging to the tribe of Levi, but by the power of a life that cannot be destroyed.
17. And the psalmist pointed this out when he prophesied, “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”