Hebrews 2:17 BSB — MannaFest

Hebrews 2:17

For this reason He had to be made like His brothers in every way, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, in order to make atonement for the sins of the people.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Wherefore it behooved him in all things to be made like unto his brethren, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

KJV

Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

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Commentary

3 voices

Bonaventure

Collationes de Septem Donis, Collation 3 (1257)

The mystery of human redemption accomplished through the incarnate and crucified Word is the great sacrament of piety. I say that the incarnate Son of God assumed our poverty. What brought this about? Certainly piety. "Whence he ought in all things to be made like …

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

That he might be a merciful and faithful High Priest-Merciful toward sinners; faithful toward God. A priest or high priest is one who has a right of approaching God, and of bringing others to him. Faithful is treated of, chap. iii, 2, &c., with its use; merciful, chap. iv, 14, &c., with the use also;

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Wherefore in all things - In respect to his body; his soul; his rank and character. There was a propriety that he should be like them, and should partake of their nature. The meaning is, that there was a fitness that nothing should be wanting in him in reference to the innocent propensities and sympathies of human nature. It behoved him - It became him; or there was a fitness and propriety in it. The reason why it was proper, the apostle proceeds to state.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

24 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὅθεν	hothen	Therefore	G3606 →
ὤφειλεν	ōpheilen	it was necessary	G3784 →
κατὰ	kata	in	G2596 →
πάντα	panta	all things	G3956 →
τοῖς	tois	<the>	G3588 →
ἀδελφοῖς	adelphois	[His] brothers	G80 →
ὁμοιωθῆναι,	homoiōthēnai	to be made like,	G3666 →
ἵνα	ina	so that	G2443 →
ἐλεήμων	eleēmōn	a merciful	G1655 →
γένηται	genētai	He may become	G1096 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
πιστὸς	pistos	faithful	G4103 →
ἀρχιερεὺς	archiereus	high priest	G749 →
τὰ	ta	[in] <the> [things]	G3588 →
πρὸς	pros	relating to	G4314 →
τὸν	ton	<the>	G3588 →
θεὸν	theon	God	G2316 →
εἰς	eis	in order	G1519 →
τὸ	to	<the>	G3588 →
ἱλάσκεσθαι	hilaskesthai	to make propitiation for	G2433 →
τὰς	tas	the	G3588 →
ἁμαρτίας	hamartias	sins	G266 →
τοῦ	tou	of the	G3588 →
λαοῦ.	laou	people.	G2992 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Hebrews 2:14
Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil,
leads to
- 2 Timothy 1:10
  And now He has revealed this grace through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has abolished death and illuminated the way to life and immortality through the gospel,
- Romans 8:3
  For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin.…
- Colossians 2:15
  And having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
- 1 Corinthians 15:54–57
  When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come to pass: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
Through
Romans 5:10
For if, when we were enemies of God, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 5:18–19
  All this is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:
- 2 Corinthians 4:10–11
  We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body.
Through
Hebrews 4:14
Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we profess.
leads to
- Hebrews 9:24
  For Christ did not enter a man-made copy of the true sanctuary, but He entered heaven itself, now to appear on our behalf in the presence of God.
- Hebrews 12:2
  Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand…