As he also in another place speaketh, (A)Thou art a Priest forever, after the [a]order of Melchizedek,

[b]Who in the [c]days of his flesh did offer up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears unto him, that was able to [d]save him from death, and was also heard in that which he feared.

And though he were the Son, yet [e]learned he obedience, by the things which he suffered.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 5:6 After the likeness or manner as it is afterward declared, Heb. 7:15.
  2. Hebrews 5:7 The other part of the second comparison: Christ being exceedingly afflicted and exceedingly merciful, asked not for his sins, for he had none, but for his fear, and obtained his request, and offered himself for all his.
  3. Hebrews 5:7 While he lived here with us in our weak and frail nature.
  4. Hebrews 5:7 To deliver him from death.
  5. Hebrews 5:8 He learned indeed what it is to have a Father, whom a man must obey.

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