But Jesus also suffered outside the city gate (i.e., outside Jerusalem), but the effect of His sacrifice was to make the people holy. Far from association with Him being unholy, as some unbelieving Jews regarded it, the readers were in fact “holy” (or sanctified; cf. 2:11; 10:10, 14) and should not hesitate to share in the disgrace He bore (cf. 12:2) by abandoning the camp of Judaism and identifying with Him. If the readers actually were acquainted with sectarian encampments in their region this