For because he has himself been tempted in what he has suffered he is able to help others who are in trial.

For although from the length of your Christian experience you ought to be teaching others, you actually need someone to teach you over again the very elements of Christian truth, and you have come to need milk instead of solid food.

In the one case, mortal men collect tithes; but in the other, one who, it is intimated, lives on.

Every other priest stands officiating day after day, offering over and over again the same sacrifices, though they were powerless ever to remove people's sins.

Women had their dead restored to them by resurrection. Others endured torture, and refused to accept release, that they might rise again to the better life.

Still others had to endure taunts and blows, and even fetters and prison.