Hebrews 5:8

Although He was God's Son, yet He learned obedience from the sufferings which He endured;

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7For Jesus during his earthly life offered up prayers and entreaties, crying aloud and weeping as He pleaded with Him who was able to bring Him in safety out of death, and He was delivered from the terror from which He shrank.

9and so, having been made perfect, He became to all who obey Him the source and giver of eternal salvation.

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Cross References

Matthew 3:15"Let it be so on this occasion," Jesus replied; "for so we ought to fulfil every religious duty." Then he consented;

John 6:38For I have left Heaven and have come down to earth not to seek my own pleasure, but to do the will of Him who sent me.

Philippians 2:8And being recognized as truly human, He humbled Himself and even stooped to die; yes, to die on a cross.

Hebrews 1:5For to which of the angels did God ever say, "My Son art Thou: I have this day become Thy Father;" and again, "I will be a Father to Him, and He shall be My Son"?

Hebrews 3:6but Christ was faithful as a Son having authority over God's house, and we are that house, if we hold firm to the End the boldness and the hope which we boast of as ours.

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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