Who is the Author of Hebrews?

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The book of Hebrews in the New Testament teaches from the Old Testament how Jesus Christ is greater than any angel, priest, or old covenant institution.

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He is the greater Moses, the greater word, the greater sacrifice. The author says at the end that this is a letter of exhortation, encouraging the reader to endure in faith.

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The audience are Hebrews, that they would know Jesus is the Savior whom God spoke about through the prophets.

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But who is the author? That's been a debate throughout church history. Martin Luther thought the author was Apollos. Most scholars believe it was

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Paul. There's language that sounds like Paul, but it doesn't start like any of his other letters. In fact, it doesn't start like a letter at all.

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It's structured more like a sermon. There's also this line in chapter 2 verse 3, how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?

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That salvation first spoken by the Lord was confirmed to us by those who heard. Paul would not have said that.

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In Galatians 1 .12, Paul said of the gospel that he preached, I neither received it from man nor was

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I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ. Hebrews, originally written in Greek, contains some of the most challenging

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Greek in the New Testament. In fact, it sounds like Luke's writing. So the likelihood is that Hebrews is a sermon that was preached by Paul, written down by Luke so more people could hear it.

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Whether Jew or Gentile, the book of Hebrews will equip you in every good thing to do his will by doing in us what is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever.