Hebrews 5:8

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered.”

— WEB

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

— KJV

“though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered;”

— ASV

Cross-references

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Philippians 2:8 "And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross."
Hebrews 10:5-9 "Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire, but you prepared a body for me."
John 4:34 "Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work."
Isaiah 50:5-6 "The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious. I have not turned back."
John 15:10 "If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and remain in his love."
John 6:38 "For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me."
Hebrews 3:6 "but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to t…"
Hebrews 1:8 "But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom."

Commentary

Though He WAS (so it ought to be translated: a positive admitted fact: not a mere supposition as were would imply) God's divine Son (whence, even in His agony, He so lovingly and often cried, Father, Mat 26:39), yet He learned His (so the Greek) obedience, not from His Sonship, but from His sufferings. As the Son, He was always obedient to the Father's will; but the special obedience needed to qualify Him as our High Priest, He learned experimentally in practical suffering. Compare Phi 2:6-8, "equal with God, but . . . took upon Him the form of a servant, and became obedient unto death," &c. He was obedient already before His passion, but He stooped to a still more humiliating and trying form of obedience then. The Greek adage is, "Pathemata mathemata," "sufferings, disciplinings." Praying and obeying, as in Christ's case, ought to go hand in hand.

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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