Book of Common Prayer

¹⁰ Everything was made for God and by God. It seemed good to him that Jesus' life should be made complete, by going through the hard things that happened to him. This was because Jesus leads many people to heaven as God's children. And he is the one who saves them.

¹¹ Jesus, who makes people holy, and those who are made holy, all have one Father in heaven. That is why Jesus is not ashamed to call them his brothers.

¹² He said, `I will tell my brothers about you. I will sing praise about you among those who gather together for worship.'

¹³ He also said, `I will trust God.' And again, `Here am I and the children God has given to me.'

¹⁴ God's children all have a body. That is why Jesus himself had the same. But because Jesus also had a body, he was able to die and stop the devil. The devil has power to make people die. But Jesus, by his own death, was able to stop the power of death.

¹⁵ People were afraid to die. All their lives they were like slaves. When Jesus died, he was able to set them free from their fear.

¹⁶ Jesus did not come to help angels. He came to help people who were born in Abraham's family.

¹⁷ So he had to be made like his brothers in every way. Then he could be a high priest to make a way to God for them, a priest who was kind and true. He could make it possible for God to forgive people for the wrong things they had done.

¹⁸ He had a very hard time when he was tested. But because he was tested, he is able to help people who are tested.

⁴⁴ Jesus called out, `Anyone who believes in me does not believe just in me, but in the one who sent me.

⁴⁵ Anyone who sees me sees the one who sent me.

⁴⁶ I am a light and have come into the world. Anyone who believes in me will not be in the dark.

⁴⁷ If anyone hears what I say and does not believe it, I do not judge him. I did not come to judge the world. I came to save the world.

⁴⁸ The one who will not believe in me and will not listen to what I say will be judged anyway. The same things that I have said will judge him on the last day.

⁴⁹ `I have not said this from my own mind, but my Father who sent me told me what to say. He told me what to tell you.

⁵⁰ I know that what he told me to say has power to give life for ever. So I say everything my Father has told me to say.'