And they truly were many priests, because they were not allowed to continue by reason of death:
But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized by you, and come you to me?
(For those priests were made without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, The Lord swore and will not change, you are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek:)
By so much was Jesus made a surety of a better covenant.
But this man, because he continues forever, has an unchangeable priesthood.
And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives.