Hebrews 4:14-5:10

Tree of Life Version

Yeshua, Our Compassionate Kohen Gadol

¹⁴ Therefore, since we have a great Kohen Gadol who has passed through the heavens, Yeshua Ben-Elohim, let us hold firmly to our confessed allegiance. ¹⁵ For we do not have a kohen gadol who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all the same ways—yet without sin. ¹⁶ Therefore let us draw near to the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace for help in time of need.

5 For every kohen gadol taken from among men is appointed to act on behalf of people in matters relating to God,^[a] so that he may offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. ² He is able to empathize with the ignorant and deluded, since he himself also is subject to weakness. ³ For this reason he has to make offerings for sins—just as for the people, so also for himself. ^{[b] 4} And no one takes this honor for himself, but only when he is called by God, as Aaron was.^[c]

⁵ So also Messiah did not glorify Himself to be made Kohen Gadol; rather, it was God who said to Him,

⁷ In the days of His life on earth,^[f] Yeshua offered up both prayers and pleas, with loud crying and tears, to the One able to save Him from death; and He was heard because of His reverence. ⁸ Though He was a Son, He learned obedience from what He suffered. ⁹ And once made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him— ¹⁰ called by God Kohen Gadol “according to the order of Melchizedek.”^[g]