Hebrews 5:4-10
Disciples’ Literal New Testament
4 And one does not take the honor to himself, but receives it being called by God, just as also Aaron.
So Also Jesus Was Made High Priest By God
5 So also, Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest, but the One having said to Him [in Ps 2:7] “You are My Son. Today I have fathered You” did, 6 just as also in another place He says “You are a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek” [Ps 110:4],
Although Being a Son, He Learned Obedience From His Sufferings
7 ... Who, in the days of His flesh[a] having offered both petitions and supplications[b] with a strong outcry and tears to the One being able to save Him from[c] death[d], and having been heard because of His reverence[e], 8 although being a Son[f], learned obedience from the things which He suffered[g].
And Jesus Became The Cause of Salvation, As High Priest In The Order of Melchizedek
9 And having been perfected[h], He became the cause[i] of eternal salvation to all the ones obeying Him, 10 having been designated[j] by God as High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek—
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- Hebrews 5:7 Or, in His days of the flesh.
- Hebrews 5:7 Or, pleadings.
- Hebrews 5:7 Or, out of.
- Hebrews 5:7 That is, peril of death; or, dying; or, physical death (through resurrection).
- Hebrews 5:7 Or, piety, devotion, godly fear.
- Hebrews 5:8 That is, One whose essential quality is that He is God’s own Son.
- Hebrews 5:8 Jesus learned obedience to God’s will from undeserved suffering, rather than from the consequences of personal sin.
- Hebrews 5:9 That is, as a human, by the sufferings.
- Hebrews 5:9 Or, source, grounds.
- Hebrews 5:10 Or, addressed, named.
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