HEBREWS 5
5 For every high priest taken from among men is appointed for
their sake before God, that he may be offering both gifts and sacrifices for
sins. 2 He is able to
empathize with those who are ignorant and wayward since he is also bound to
weakness. 3 Therefore he is
obliged to offer for his own sins just as he does for the people. 4 No one takes this honour upon
themselves; only the one who is called by God, as Aaron was. 5 So also Christ didn’t glorify
himself to be made a high priest, instead it was the one who said to him, “You
are my son. Today I have given you
birth.” 6 Likewise, elsewhere
he says, “You are a priest into the Age (according to the pattern of
Melchizedek),” 7 who, in the days in his natural body, offered both
requests and intercessions with loud cries and tears to the one able to save
him out of death, and he was heard because of his godly fear. 8 Despite being a son, he learned
obedience through the things he suffered. 9 Being perfected, then, he became the source of the salvation
of the Age to all who obey him, and was 10 announced by God as a high
priest according to the pattern of Melchizedek 11 – about whom we
have much to discuss! Unfortunately it
would be a baffling explanation for you because your awareness has become
dulled. 12 By this time you
ought to be teachers but you actually need to be taught the basic principles of
God’s revelations all over again! You
now need milk, not solid food. 13 For
everyone taking milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness – he is childish
– 14 but solid food is for the mature, the ones who through
practise have thoroughly trained their senses to discern both good and evil.