Because it was right for him, for whom and through whom all things have being, in guiding his sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation complete through pain.

And though he was a Son, through the pain which he underwent, the knowledge came to him of what it was to be under God's orders;

Feeling that it was better to undergo pain with the people of God, than for a short time to have a taste of the pleasures of sin;

They were stoned, they were cut up with knives, they were tested, they were put to death with the sword, they went about in sheepskins and in goatskins; being poor and in pain and cruelly attacked,

At the time all punishment seems to be pain and not joy: but after, those who have been trained by it get from it the peace-giving fruit of righteousness.