Charles Spurgeon Commentary Hebrews 5:7-8

"Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear, though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered;" — Hebrews 5:7-8 (ASV)

Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered (Hebrews 5:7–8).

Just as the earthly high priests offered sacrifices for themselves, so Christ, though he did not need to offer sacrifice for himself, did need to pray for himself. You know, beloved, how he gave himself to prayer on the cold mountains at midnight, and how Gethsemane's garden witnessed the bloody sweat falling in clots to the ground. Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered (Hebrews 5:8).

God had one Son without sin, but he never had a son without suffering. We may escape the rod if we are not of the family of God, but the true-born child must not, and would not if he could, avoid that chastisement of which all such are partakers.