We don’t have a priest who is out of touch with our reality.
He’s been through weakness and testing,
experienced it all—all but the sin.
Hebrews 4:15 The Message
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“His sinlessness was, at least in part,
an earned sinlessness as he gained victory after victory
in the constant battle with temptation that life in this world entails.”
Leon Morris
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He knew the strength and fury of external temptation
in a way and to a degree that we can never know.
He knows what we go through and He has faced worse.
David Gruzik
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“Yet He endured triumphantly every form of testing that man could endure,
without any weakening of His faith in God
or any relaxation of His obedience to Him.
Such endurance involves more, not less,
than ordinary human suffering.”
F. F. Bruce