The office of a high priest. Christ is our high priest.
5:1. For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in
the things that appertain to God, that he may offer up gifts and
sacrifices for sins:
5:2. Who can have compassion on them that are ignorant and that err:
because he himself also is compassed with infirmity.
5:3. And therefore he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to
offer for sins.
5:4. Neither doth any man take the honour to himself, but he that is
called by God, as Aaron was.
5:5. So Christ also did not glorify himself, that he might be made a
high priest: but he that said unto him: Thou art my Son: this day have I
begotten thee.
5:6. As he saith also in another place: Thou art a priest for ever,
according to the order of Melchisedech.
5:7. Who in the days of his flesh, with a strong cry and tears, offering
up prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from
death, was heard for his reverence.
5:8. And whereas indeed he was the Son of God, he learned obedience by
the things which he suffered.
5:9. And being consummated, he became, to all that obey him, the cause
of eternal salvation:
5:10. Called by God a high priest, according to the order of
Melchisedech.
5:11. Of whom we have much to say and hard to be intelligibly uttered:
because you are become weak to hear.
5:12. For whereas for the time you ought to be masters, you have need to
be taught again what are the first elements of the words of God: and you
are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat.
5:13. For every one that is a partaker of milk is unskilful in the word
of justice: for he is a little child.
5:14. But strong meat is for the perfect: for them who by custom have
their senses exercised to the discerning of good and evil.