Therefore, the sacrificial, liberating death of Jesus is also the faithful, witness-bearing death of Jesus, and it has created a people who are forgiven and liberated by his death in order to share in that death—whether figuratively or literally—as his faithful witnesses. In other words, Jesus’ death has created a new-covenant, faithful, cruciform, and missional multinational (5:9) people, a community of kings and priests (1:6), a new people of God in which all members have royal and sacerdotal status.193
