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Learning Through Experience
Commentators unanimously clarify that Jesus didn't learn obedience because He was ever disobedient. Rather, He learned it 'experimentally.' Though always perfectly willing to obey His Father, He had to practically live out that obedience through intense suffering. Scholars describe this as moving from a perfect disposition to a proven, demonstrated act of obedience. This experience was essential to His role as a sympathetic High Priest who understands our struggles.
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Albert Barnes
On Hebrews 5:8
18th Century
Theologian
Though he were a Son. Though the Son of God. Though he sustained this exalted rank and was conscious of it, yet he was willing to learn ex…
AT Robertson
On Hebrews 5:8
Though he was a Son (καιπερ ων υιος). Concessive participle with καιπερ, regular Greek idiom as in 7:5; 12:17.
Yet …
Charles Ellicott
On Hebrews 5:8
19th Century
Bishop
Though He was a Son.—These words may be connected with what precedes (implying that He was heard for His reverent fear, n…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Hebrews 5:7–8
19th Century
Preacher
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 …
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Hebrews 5:8
We should take these words in the sense of “son though he was” rather than “although he was a son.” It is the quality of sonship that is emphasized…
John Calvin
On Hebrews 5:8
16th Century
Theologian
Yet learned he obedience, etc. The immediate purpose of Christ’s sufferings was to accustom himself to obedience. This was not because he …
John Gill
On Hebrews 5:8
17th Century
Pastor
Though he were a Son
The Son of God, as the Vulgate Latin version reads; not by creation, nor by adoption, nor by of…
Matthew Henry
On Hebrews 5:1–10
17th Century
Minister
The High Priest must be a man, a partaker of our nature. This shows that man had sinned, for God would not allow sinful man to come to him alone. B…