Hebrews 5:8

although he was a Son, he yet learned obedience from the things which he suffered;

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;

In Context

7In the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears, to him that was able to save him from death, and having been heard with respect to that which he feared,

9and, having been made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation to all that obey him,

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Cross References

Matthew 3:15But Jesus answering said to him: Permit it now; for thus it becomes us to perform fully every righteous act. Then he permitted him.

John 6:38For I came down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me.

Philippians 2:8and being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient even to death, the death, indeed, of the cross.

Hebrews 1:5For to which of the angels did he at any time say: Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again: I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?

Hebrews 3:6but Christ, as a Son over his own house; whose house we are, if we hold the confidence and the joy of our hope firm to the end.

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 5:2-10

The Priesthood of Christ. ( a. d. 62.) 1 For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: 2 Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity. 3 And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins. 4 And no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron. 5 So also Christ… Read the whole commentary →

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