22 Instead, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God (the heavenly Jerusalem), to myriads of angels, a festive gathering,  *23 to the assembly of the firstborn whose names have been written  * in heaven, to a Judge, who is God of all, to the spirits of righteous people made perfect,  *24 and to Jesus, the mediator  * of a new covenant,  * and to the sprinkled blood, which says better things than the blood of Abel.  *