Expositor's Bible Commentary Commentary Hebrews 2:13

"And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold, I and the children whom God hath given me." — Hebrews 2:13 (ASV)

Two further citations from Scripture underscore the point—the first is from Isa 8:17, the second from Isa 8:18. The reason for the first passage is not obvious. The context in Isaiah, however, speaks of difficulties, and the thought may be that just as Isaiah had to trust God to see him through, so was it with Jesus. In this he was brother to all God’s troubled saints. The second quotation continues the first, but it is introduced here with “and again he says,” because it makes a new point. The author now sees believers as “the children [GK 4086] God has given” Christ. This word is normally used of literal children, but this is the one place where it is used of “children” of Christ. These children are “given” by God as the disciples were given to Jesus . All three quotations from the OT, then, place the speaker in the same group as God’s children. The actual word “brothers” occurs only in the first, but they all locate Christ among people. He had a real community of nature with those he came to save.