24 Seventy sevens are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
seventy sevens – the Hebrew word for “seven” can be sounded as “seven” or “week.” It shall take seven times longer than the seventy years in Babylon, to make a reconciliation for iniquity.
to finish the transgression – as compared to the punishment described in verses 1 to 20.
to make an end of sins – through putting Christ on the cross.
to make a reconciliation for iniquity – through Christ’s death.
to bring in everlasting righteousness – through the kingdom of God.
to seal up vision and prophecy – to fulfill the Law and the Prophets through Christ.
to anoint the most Holy – to anoint Christ. Generally the phrase “qodesh qodasheem” (most holy) refers to the temple, but without the article, as here, it can refer to a person, for example, 1 Chron 23:13.