⁵ So also Christ did not glorify himself in becoming a high priest but was appointed by^[a] the one who said to him,

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

¹⁸ Those who speak on their own seek their own glory, but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and there is nothing unjust in him.^(A)

The Son Is Superior to Angels

⁵ For to which of the angels did God^[a] ever say,

Or again,

³³ he has fulfilled for us, their children,^[a] by raising Jesus; as also it is written in the second psalm,

³ For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and to deal with sin,^[a] he condemned sin in the flesh,^(A)

¹⁶ “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.^(A)

The Ruler from Bethlehem