5In this way also Christ did not glorify Himself to become a high priest, but He who said to Him,

“YOU ARE MY SON,

TODAY I HAVE BEGOTTEN YOU”;

6just as He says also in another passage,

“YOU ARE A PRIEST FOREVER

ACCORDING TO THE ORDER OF MELCHIZEDEK.”

7He, [†]in the days of His flesh, [†]offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him [†]from death, and He [†]was heard because of His reverence. 8Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered. 9And having been made perfect, He became to all those who obey Him the source of eternal salvation, 10being designated by God as a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.

11Concerning [†]him we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. 12For though [†]by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the [†]elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. 13For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant. 14But solid food is for the [†]mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern both good and evil.