Jesus - a faithful High Priest
- Kristina Trott
- 3 days ago
- 2 min read
I was reading this morning:
“It was now two days before Passover and the Festival of Thin Bread. The chief priests and the teachers of the Law of Moses were planning how they could sneak around and have Jesus arrested and put to death”. (Mark 14:1 CEV)
It occurred to me that these miserable chief priests and teachers had done this before! They knew just how to go about getting someone killed. Whenever someone had interfered with with their MO, they simply eliminated them. Again and again.
Innocent people had actually been killed quite easily and readily by these so-called religious people. We have on record that they even wanted to kill Lazarus, whose only “crime” had been to exist and then to re-exist? (John 12/10-11).
No wonder Jesus reserved such harsh words against these blind and cutthroat leaders in Matthew 23, calling them serpents, spawn of vipers, hypocritical, self-righteous and lawless.
By contrast, Jesus is called the FAITHFUL high priest:
V 14 Therefore, since we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess.
V15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathise with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin”. (Heb. 4:14-15 AMP).
Not only do we have a high priest who understands our weaknesses and temptations because He experienced them himself, but we know we have a sympathetic high priest who offered Himself as a sacrifice so we could be eternally saved. What great blessings we have when we trust in Jesus!
V7 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].
V8 Although He was a Son [who had never been disobedient to the Father], He learned [active, special] obedience through what He suffered.
V9 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, V10 being designated by God as High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek. (Heb. 5:7-10 AMP).
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