Warning to Pay Attention
1We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. 2For since the message spoken through angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, 3how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him. 4God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.
Jesus Made Fully Human
5It is not to angels that he has subjected the world to come, about which we are speaking. 6But there is a place where someone has testified:
“What is mankind that you are mindful of them,
a son of man that you care for him?
7You made them a little2:7 Or them for a little while lower than the angels;
you crowned them with glory and honor
8and put everything under their feet.”2:6-8 Psalm 8:4-62:7,8 Or 7 You made him a little lower than the angels; / you crowned him with glory and honor / 8 and put everything under his feet.”
In putting everything under them,2:8 Or him God left nothing that is not subject to them.2:8 Or him Yet at present we do not see everything subject to them.2:8 Or him 9But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.
10In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered. 11Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters.2:11 The Greek word for brothers and sisters (adelphoi) refers here to believers, both men and women, as part of God’s family; also in verse 12; and in 3:1, 12; 10:19; 13:22. 12He says,
“I will declare your name to my brothers and sisters;
in the assembly I will sing your praises.”2:12 Psalm 22:22
13And again,
“I will put my trust in him.”2:13 Isaiah 8:17
And again he says,
“Here am I, and the children God has given me.”2:13 Isaiah 8:18
14Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— 15and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. 16For surely it is not angels he helps, but Abraham’s descendants. 17For this reason he had to be made like them,2:17 Or like his brothers fully human in every way, in order that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in service to God, and that he might make atonement for the sins of the people. 18Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
Wokovu Mkuu
12:1 Rum 11:22Kwa hiyo, imetupasa kuwa waangalifu sana kuhusu kile tulichosikia, ili tusije tukakiacha. 22:2 Ebr 1:1; Kum 33:2; Mdo 7:53; Gal 3:19; Ebr 10:28Kwa kuwa kama ujumbe ulionenwa na malaika ulikuwa imara, na kila uasi na kutokutii kulipata adhabu ya haki, 32:3 Ebr 10:29; 12:25; 1:2; Lk 1:2je, sisi tutapaje kupona kama tusipojali wokovu mkuu namna hii? Wokovu huu, ambao mwanzo ulitangazwa na Bwana, ulithibitishwa kwetu na wale waliomsikia. 42:4 Mk 16:20; Yn 4:48; 1Kor 12:4; Efe 1:5Pia Mungu aliushuhudia kwa ishara, maajabu na kwa miujiza mbalimbali, na karama za Roho Mtakatifu alizozigawa kulingana na mapenzi yake.
Yesu Alifananishwa Na Ndugu Zake
52:5 Ebr 6:5; 2Pet 3:13Mungu hakuuweka ulimwengu ujao ambao tunanena habari zake chini ya malaika. 62:6 Ebr 4:4; Ay 7:17; Za 144:3; 8:4-6Lakini kuna mahali mtu fulani ameshuhudia akisema:
“Mwanadamu ni kitu gani hata unamfikiria,
binadamu ni nani hata unamjali?
7Umemfanya chini kidogo kuliko malaika;
ukamvika taji ya utukufu na heshima,
82:8 Za 8:4-6; Mt 22:44; 28:18; 1Kor 15:27; Efe 1:22; Ebr 1:13; 1Kor 15:2nawe umeweka vitu vyote chini ya miguu yake.”
Kwa kuweka vitu vyote chini yake, Mungu hakuacha kitu chochote ambacho hakukiweka chini ya mwanadamu. Lakini kwa sasa, hatuoni kwamba kila kitu kiko chini yake. 92:9 Ebr 2:7; Mdo 3:13; Flp 2:7-9; 2Kor 5:15; Mdo 2:33; Yn 3:16; 12:32; Rum 5:18; 8:32; 2Kor 5:15; 1Tim 2:6; 1Yn 2:2; Ufu 5:9Lakini twamwona Yesu, aliyefanywa chini kidogo kuliko malaika, sasa akiwa amevikwa taji ya utukufu na heshima kwa sababu alistahimili mauti, ili kwamba kwa neema ya Mungu apate kuonja mauti kwa ajili ya kila mtu.
102:10 Rum 11:36; Lk 24:26; Ebr 5:8, 9; 7:28; Lk 24:46; Mdo 3:15; 5:31; Ebr 12:2; Lk 13:32; Ebr 5:9Ili kuwaleta wana wengi katika utukufu, ilifaa kwamba Mungu, ambaye ni kwa ajili yake na kupitia kwake kila kitu kimekuwepo, amkamilishe mwanzilishi wa wokovu wao kwa njia ya mateso. 112:11 Ebr 10:10; Mdo 17:26; Mt 28:10; Yn 20:17; Rum 8:29; Efe 5:26; Ebr 13:12Yeye awafanyaye watu kuwa watakatifu, pamoja na hao ambao hufanywa watakatifu, wote hutoka katika jamaa moja. Hivyo Yesu haoni aibu kuwaita ndugu zake. 122:12 Za 22:22, 25; 68:26Yeye husema,
“Nitalitangaza jina lako kwa ndugu zangu;
mbele ya kusanyiko nitaimba sifa zako.”
132:13 Isa 8:17, 18; Yn 10:29; Za 18:2; Isa 12:2; Yn 20:17; 17:6, 9, 11, 12Tena,
“Nitaweka tumaini langu kwake.”
Tena anasema,
“Niko hapa, pamoja na watoto ambao Mungu amenipa.”
142:14 Yn 1:14; Rum 8:3Basi kwa kuwa watoto wana nyama na damu, yeye pia alishiriki katika ubinadamu wao, ili kwa kifo chake, apate kumwangamiza huyo mwenye nguvu za mauti, yaani ibilisi, 152:15 2Tim 1:7; Lk 1:74; Rum 8:15na kuwaweka huru wale waliokuwa utumwani maisha yao yote kwa sababu ya kuogopa mauti. 162:16 Isa 41:8, 9; Lk 3:8Kwa kuwa ni dhahiri kwamba hakuja kusaidia malaika, bali uzao wa Abrahamu. 172:17 Ebr 2:14; 5:1; 5:2; 3:1; 4:14, 15; Flp 2:7; Rum 3:25; Za 22:22Kwa sababu hii ilibidi afanane na ndugu zake kwa kila hali, ili apate kuwa Kuhani Mkuu mwenye huruma na mwaminifu katika kumtumikia Mungu, ili pia apate kufanya upatanisho kwa ajili ya dhambi za watu. 182:18 Ebr 4:15, 16; 5:2; 7:2; 4:15Kwa kuwa yeye mwenyewe aliteswa alipojaribiwa, aweza kuwasaidia wale wanaojaribiwa.
