And they truly were many priests, because they were not allowed to continue by reason of death:

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

For some, when they had heard, did provoke: yet not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

As he says also in another place, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

Where the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

For Christ has not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place every year with blood of others;

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

And whosoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?

Jesus said unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes unto the Father, but by me.

Yet a little while, and the world sees me no more; but you see me: because I live, you shall live also.

I am he that lives, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive forevermore, Amen; and have the keys of hades and of death.