Lockman - Bible questions and answers

		Heb 5:1 For every high priest chosen from among men is appointed [to act] on behalf of men in things relating to God, so that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins.
		Heb 5:2 He is able to deal gently with the spiritually ignorant and misguided, since he is also subject to human weakness;
		Heb 5:3 and because of this [human weakness] he is required to offer sacrifices for sins, for himself as well as for the people.
		Heb 5:4 And besides, one does not appropriate for himself the honor [of being high priest], but he who is called by God, just as Aaron was.
		Heb 5:5 ¶ So too Christ did not glorify Himself so as to be made a high priest, but He [was exalted and appointed by the One] who said to Him, "YOU ARE MY SON, TODAY I HAVE BEGOTTEN (fathered) YOU [declared Your authority and rule over the nations]"; [Ps 2:7]
		Heb 5:6 just as He also says in another place, "YOU ARE A PRIEST [appointed] FOREVER ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK." [Ps 110:4]
		Heb 5:7 In the days of His earthly life, Jesus offered up both [specific] petitions and [urgent] supplications [for that which He needed] with fervent crying and tears to the One who was [always] able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverent submission toward God [His sinlessness and His unfailing determination to do the Father's will].
		Heb 5:8 Although He was a Son [who had never been disobedient to the Father], He learned [active, special] obedience through what He suffered.
		Heb 5:9 And having been made perfect [uniquely equipped and prepared as Savior and retaining His integrity amid opposition], He became the source of eternal salvation [an eternal inheritance] to all those who obey Him, [Is 45:17]
		Heb 5:10 being designated by God as High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek. [Ps 110:4]
		Heb 5:11 ¶ Concerning this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull and sluggish in [your spiritual] hearing and disinclined to listen.
		Heb 5:12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers [because of the time you have had to learn these truths], you actually need someone to teach you again the elementary principles of God's word [from the beginning], and you have come to be continually in need of milk, not solid food.
		Heb 5:13 *For everyone who lives on milk is [doctrinally inexperienced and] unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a spiritual* infant.**
		Heb 5:14 But solid food is for the [spiritually] mature, whose senses are trained by practice to distinguish between what is morally good and what is evil.

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