1Every high priest who is taken from among men is given his position to take care of the interests of men in those things which have to do with God, so that he may make offerings for sins.
2He is able to have feeling for those who have no knowledge and for those who are wandering from the true way, because he himself is feeble;
3And being feeble, he has to make sin-offerings for himself as well as for the people.
4And no man who is not given authority by God, as Aaron was, takes this honour for himself.
5In the same way Christ did not take for himself the glory of being made a high priest, but was given it by him who said, You are my Son, this day I have given you being:
6As he says in another place, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
7Who in the days of his flesh, having sent up prayers and requests with strong crying and weeping to him who was able to give him salvation from death, had his prayer answered because of his fear of God.
