The High Priest: Inferior to Christ in Needing to Make Atonement for his own Sins

He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and misguided, since he himself is subject to weakness.

That is why he is obligated to offer sacrifices for his own sins, as well as for the sins of the people.

Such a high priest truly befits us—One who is holy, innocent, undefiled, set apart from sinners, and exalted above the heavens. …

But only the high priest entered the second room, and then only once a year, and never without blood, which he offered for himself and for the sins the people had committed in ignorance.