Hebrews 5:6

"So also Christ didn’t glorify himself to be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him, “You are my Son. Today I have become your father.”"

Key Reflection

This passage highlights Jesus' humble acceptance of his divine calling. By not glorifying himself, Jesus demonstrates that his high priesthood was a role assigned to him by God, as evidenced by the heavenly declaration "You are my Son. Today I have become your father," affirming his unique and divinely ordained position.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Verse 6. As he said also in another place. Ps 110:4. Thou art a Priest for ever. It is evident here that the apostle means to be understood as saying that the Psalm referred to Christ-and this is one of the instances of quotation from the Old. Testament respecting which there can be no doubt. Paul makes winch of this argument in a subsequent part of this epistle, Heb 7, and reasons as if no one would deny that the Psalm had a reference to the Messiah. It is clear, from this, that the Psalm was understood by the Jews at that time to have such a reference, and that it was so universally admitted that no one would call it in question.

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