Hebrews 5:5-11
5 So also Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest, but it was He who said to Him:
“You are My Son, Today I have begotten You.”
6 As He also says in another place:
“You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek”;
7 who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear, 8 though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. 9 And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him, 10 called by God as High Priest “according to the order of Melchizedek,” 11 of whom we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
“You are My Son, Today I have begotten You.”
6 As He also says in another place:
“You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek”;
7 who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear, 8 though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. 9 And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him, 10 called by God as High Priest “according to the order of Melchizedek,” 11 of whom we have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
Christ did not point to Himself to prove His worthiness to be our High Priest to intercede for us; He was called as one always in that position as the Son of God, yet proven by the obedience of suffering as a man. Like Melchizedek, Jesus was a priest who seemed to come out of nowhere, yet as the King of Peace and serving God and men as God appoints. While among us a man, Jesus Christ prayed for us and to fulfill His work through the sufferings (Matthew 26:39, Luke 22:42). He showed obedience to us which we failed at so that He could be blameless as He took on our sin and then offer Himself for us as a priest does, yet being the sacrifice itself as well. He was perfected in this sense and able to be the creator and leader of salvation to captain our ships into eternity. He delivered us from God’s wrath and punishment by His work as our High Priest, sacrifice, and Savior! These things are difficult at times to grasp fully, but we are exhorted to listen in order to hear, and not to grow dull in hearing Him.
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