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.
Commentary
Vs. 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.”
Just as Aaron and his sons did not glorify themselves in serving God as high priests, since it was God who called them alone to serve Him in that capacity until the time of reformation (see Heb. 9:6-10). So also Christ did not glorify Himself to become High Priest, for it was God who said to Him alone, “You are My Son, Today I have begotten You.” (Psalm 2:7). Therefore if the Aaron and his sons alone were to serve God as His high priests, since God called them alone, how much more is the Lord Jesus Christ who is the Person the Scriptures declare to be His Son and foretold He would be His High Priest. For the Lord Jesus Christ alone having accomplished eternal salvation for us all who believe in Him, is now alone called by God the Father to serve and intercede for us as His High Priest.
Vs. 6 As He also says in another place: “You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek”;
Melchizedek' priesthood was unique in that it was without beginning and end (Heb 7:3), thus it is here distinguished from Aaron's which came into being with the giving of the Law. And so the Lord Jesus Christ being the Author of eternal salvation did not have His High Priesthood come according to the order of Aaron, for Christ did not come to reestablish the Old Covenant and it's priesthood but to fulfill it, so as to make way for the New Covenant, and thus establish His own High Priesthood which is according to the order of Melchizedek, whose person is without beginning and without end, who alone served God in that capacity, and as such he then signifies all that God planned to do through His Son the Lord Jesus Christ and His Everlasting Priesthood (consider Heb 9:6-14).
Vs. 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"
The Lord Jesus Christ when He became a Man was fully human, fully capable of experiencing all the fears and pains and even death that we can and do, yet He alone is without sin. As well as a Man Jesus Christ in laying aside all of His Privileges as the Son of God, was just like us in another way, and that is He was faced with a reality that He was now totally dependent on God. Yes Jesus could do miracles and such as a Man, but everything that He now did was fully dependent upon God. Even His very life which is the point being made here, was fully subject too and dependent upon the Will of God (consider John 19:10-11). And so when in Gethsemane, (and likely at other times), when Jesus offered up prayers and supplications and vehement cries to God who was able to save Him from death, Jesus was heard because of His Godly fear. Therefore God did not give Jesus over to the graves corruption, rather Jesus Christ three days after His Crucifixion death rose to new and everlasting life, so that He might be the Author of eternal salvation for all who now obey Him (Heb. 5:9)
Vs. 8 "though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered."
Though Jesus Christ was a Son, the Son of God, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. That is Jesus learned obedience as a Man comes at a cost, for there is always resistance and opposition in this sinful world to anyone doing the Will of God. Therefore Jesus had to experience in the flesh the very things that make for obedience: the risks (Matt 10:34-42, vs. 36), the self denial's (Matt. 16:24), the "losses" (Mark 8:35), the facing of ones own fears (Matt 10:27-28; 2 Cor 7:5-7; 1 Peter 4:14-19; Heb 13:12-14 etc.). Therefore don't confuse this passage with any notion that Jesus ever had any inclination to disobey God the Father, because He never has (John 8:29).
Vs. 9 "And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him"
Perfection here pertains not to Christ's Person per-say, but what He has accomplished as our Lord and Savior, and specifically as our High Priest, as all of this pertains to our salvation. Therefore Perfection for Christ came through suffering, suffering for His obedience to God the Father and obeying His Will even to the point of death on a cross, Jesus Christ alone then has become the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him.
Vs. 10-1110 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.
Since Jesus Christ alone has been called by God as High Priest, called according to the order of Melchizedek, and thus called into an everlasting priesthood from which He alone serves as God's sole Mediator between God and sinful humanity (1 Tim 2:5), there is much more that needs to be stated about Melchizedek, and will be stated in chapter seven so as to enlighten and enrich us all as to the nature of Christ's Priesthood, which is being exalted way higher and far above Aaron's in both it's nature and it's scope in what it is able to accomplish for us all who believe In the Lord Jesus Christ. That all said there is a slight rebuke here of the original audiences dullness of hearing in that in learning such things as pertaining to both the nature of the Law and it's sacrifices and priesthood, as well as the priesthood which performed all such things prescribed within; which again is only being stated so as to show the superiority of the Lord Jesus Christ's Person, salvation, and priesthood all which has provided the everlasting atonement and redemption for everyone who repents and believes in His Person and calls upon His Name (Rom 10:9-10,13, Eph. 2:8-9); some had become dull of hearing, something which can happen to you too if don't believe and receive the Word of God's truths for yourself, so that you may also be a partaker of God's gift of new and everlasting life by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, "For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.” Acts. 2:39 Therefore don't become dull of hearing instead receive the Lord Jesus Christ who will bring all the life and love and fullness of God deep inside you, for it is He alone who will fully satisfy and justify and sanctify you and keep your whole person and life until this redemption work and glory concludes with all our journeys home in heaven.
Scripture Quotations
The New King James Version. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982.
Additional Resources Consulted
Vs. 8 Vincent, Marvin Richardson. Word Studies in the New Testament. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1887.
Melchizedek' priesthood was unique in that it was without beginning and end (Heb 7:3), thus it is here distinguished from Aaron's which came into being with the giving of the Law. And so the Lord Jesus Christ being the Author of eternal salvation did not have His High Priesthood come according to the order of Aaron, for Christ did not come to reestablish the Old Covenant and it's priesthood but to fulfill it, so as to make way for the New Covenant, and thus establish His own High Priesthood which is according to the order of Melchizedek, whose person is without beginning and without end, who alone served God in that capacity, and as such he then signifies all that God planned to do through His Son the Lord Jesus Christ and His Everlasting Priesthood (consider Heb 9:6-14).
Vs. 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"
The Lord Jesus Christ when He became a Man was fully human, fully capable of experiencing all the fears and pains and even death that we can and do, yet He alone is without sin. As well as a Man Jesus Christ in laying aside all of His Privileges as the Son of God, was just like us in another way, and that is He was faced with a reality that He was now totally dependent on God. Yes Jesus could do miracles and such as a Man, but everything that He now did was fully dependent upon God. Even His very life which is the point being made here, was fully subject too and dependent upon the Will of God (consider John 19:10-11). And so when in Gethsemane, (and likely at other times), when Jesus offered up prayers and supplications and vehement cries to God who was able to save Him from death, Jesus was heard because of His Godly fear. Therefore God did not give Jesus over to the graves corruption, rather Jesus Christ three days after His Crucifixion death rose to new and everlasting life, so that He might be the Author of eternal salvation for all who now obey Him (Heb. 5:9)
Vs. 8 "though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered."
Though Jesus Christ was a Son, the Son of God, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. That is Jesus learned obedience as a Man comes at a cost, for there is always resistance and opposition in this sinful world to anyone doing the Will of God. Therefore Jesus had to experience in the flesh the very things that make for obedience: the risks (Matt 10:34-42, vs. 36), the self denial's (Matt. 16:24), the "losses" (Mark 8:35), the facing of ones own fears (Matt 10:27-28; 2 Cor 7:5-7; 1 Peter 4:14-19; Heb 13:12-14 etc.). Therefore don't confuse this passage with any notion that Jesus ever had any inclination to disobey God the Father, because He never has (John 8:29).
Vs. 9 "And having been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him"
Perfection here pertains not to Christ's Person per-say, but what He has accomplished as our Lord and Savior, and specifically as our High Priest, as all of this pertains to our salvation. Therefore Perfection for Christ came through suffering, suffering for His obedience to God the Father and obeying His Will even to the point of death on a cross, Jesus Christ alone then has become the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him.
Vs. 10-1110 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.
Since Jesus Christ alone has been called by God as High Priest, called according to the order of Melchizedek, and thus called into an everlasting priesthood from which He alone serves as God's sole Mediator between God and sinful humanity (1 Tim 2:5), there is much more that needs to be stated about Melchizedek, and will be stated in chapter seven so as to enlighten and enrich us all as to the nature of Christ's Priesthood, which is being exalted way higher and far above Aaron's in both it's nature and it's scope in what it is able to accomplish for us all who believe In the Lord Jesus Christ. That all said there is a slight rebuke here of the original audiences dullness of hearing in that in learning such things as pertaining to both the nature of the Law and it's sacrifices and priesthood, as well as the priesthood which performed all such things prescribed within; which again is only being stated so as to show the superiority of the Lord Jesus Christ's Person, salvation, and priesthood all which has provided the everlasting atonement and redemption for everyone who repents and believes in His Person and calls upon His Name (Rom 10:9-10,13, Eph. 2:8-9); some had become dull of hearing, something which can happen to you too if don't believe and receive the Word of God's truths for yourself, so that you may also be a partaker of God's gift of new and everlasting life by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, "For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.” Acts. 2:39 Therefore don't become dull of hearing instead receive the Lord Jesus Christ who will bring all the life and love and fullness of God deep inside you, for it is He alone who will fully satisfy and justify and sanctify you and keep your whole person and life until this redemption work and glory concludes with all our journeys home in heaven.
Scripture Quotations
The New King James Version. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982.
Additional Resources Consulted
Vs. 8 Vincent, Marvin Richardson. Word Studies in the New Testament. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1887.
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