⁵ So also Christ ^(A)did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him,

⁵⁴ Jesus answered, ^(A)“If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. ^(B)It is my Father who glorifies me, ^(C)of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’^[a]

⁵ For to which of the angels did God ever say,

Or again,

¹⁸ The one who speaks on his own authority ^(A)seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.

^33 (A)this he has fulfilled to us their children by raising Jesus, as also it is written in the second Psalm,

³ For ^(A)God has done what the law, ^(B)weakened by the flesh, ^(C)could not do. ^(D)By sending his own Son ^(E)in the likeness of sinful flesh and ^(F)for sin,^[a] he condemned sin in the flesh,

The Supremacy of God's Son

1 Long ago, at many times and ^(A)in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets,