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And God heard his prayers because of his deep reverence for God. <a href="/esv/hebrews/5.htm">English Standard Version</a> In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence. <a href="/bsb/hebrews/5.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence. <a href="/blb/hebrews/5.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> He in the days of His flesh, having offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One being able to save Him from death, and having been heard because of reverent submission, <a href="/kjv/hebrews/5.htm">King James Bible</a> Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; <a href="/nkjv/hebrews/5.htm">New King James Version</a> who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear, <a href="/nasb_/hebrews/5.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> In the days of His humanity, He offered up both prayers and pleas with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His devout behavior. <a href="/nasb/hebrews/5.htm">NASB 1995</a> In the days of His flesh, He 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 piety. <a href="/nasb77/hebrews/5.htm">NASB 1977 </a> In the days of His flesh, He 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 piety. <a href="/lsb/hebrews/5.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> He, 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. <a href="/amp/hebrews/5.htm">Amplified Bible</a> In the days of His earthly life, Jesus offered up both [specific] petitions and [urgent] supplications [for that which He needed] with fervent crying and tears to the One who was [always] able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverent submission toward God [His sinlessness and His unfailing determination to do the Father’s will]. <a href="/csb/hebrews/5.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> During his earthly life, he offered prayers and appeals with loud cries and tears to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence. <a href="/hcsb/hebrews/5.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> During His earthly life, He offered prayers and appeals with loud cries and tears to the One who was able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence. <a href="/asv/hebrews/5.htm">American Standard Version</a> Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear, <a href="/cev/hebrews/5.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> God had the power to save Jesus from death. And while Jesus was on earth, he begged God with loud crying and tears to save him. He truly worshiped God, and God listened to his prayers. <a href="/erv/hebrews/5.htm">English Revised Version</a> Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear, <a href="/gwt/hebrews/5.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> During his life on earth, Jesus prayed to God, who could save him from death. He prayed and pleaded with loud crying and tears, and he was heard because of his devotion to God. <a href="/gnt/hebrews/5.htm">Good News Translation</a> In his life on earth Jesus made his prayers and requests with loud cries and tears to God, who could save him from death. Because he was humble and devoted, God heard him. <a href="/isv/hebrews/5.htm">International Standard Version</a> As a mortal man, he offered up prayers and appeals with loud cries and tears to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his devotion to God. <a href="/msb/hebrews/5.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> During the days of Jesus? earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence. <a href="/net/hebrews/5.htm">NET Bible</a> During his earthly life Christ offered both requests and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death and he was heard because of his devotion. <a href="/nheb/hebrews/5.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> In the days of his flesh, he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence. <a href="/wbt/hebrews/5.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to him that was able to save him from death, and was heard, in that he feared; <a href="/wey/hebrews/5.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> For Jesus during his earthly life offered up prayers and entreaties, crying aloud and weeping as He pleaded with Him who was able to bring Him in safety out of death, and He was delivered from the terror from which He shrank. <a href="/web/hebrews/5.htm">World English Bible</a> He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear, <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/hebrews/5.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> who in the days of His flesh having offered up both prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and having been heard in respect to that which He feared, <a href="/blb/hebrews/5.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> He in the days of His flesh, having offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One being able to save Him from death, and having been heard because of reverent submission, <a href="/ylt/hebrews/5.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> who in the days of his flesh both prayers and supplications unto Him who was able to save him from death -- with strong crying and tears -- having offered up, and having been heard in respect to that which he feared, <a href="/slt/hebrews/5.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> Who in the days of his flesh, both prayers and supplications to him able to save him from death, with strong crying and tears, having offered, and listened to by means of circumspection;<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/hebrews/5.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> Who in the days of his flesh, with a strong cry and tears, offering up prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death, was heard for his reverence. <a href="/cpdv/hebrews/5.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> It is Christ who, in the days of his flesh, with a strong cry and tears, offered prayers and supplications to the One who was able to save him from death, and who was heard because of his reverence. <a href="/nabre/hebrews/5.htm">New American Bible</a> In the days when he was in the flesh, he offered prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence. <a href="/nrsvce/hebrews/5.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/hebrews/5.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> Even when he was clothed in the flesh, he offered prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death; and verily he was heard. <a href="/aramaic-plain-english/hebrews/5.htm">Aramaic Bible in Plain English</a> While also he was clothed in the flesh, he offered prayers, supplications, strong shouting and tears to him who was able to give him life from death, and he was obeyed.<div class="vheading2">NT Translations</div><a href="/anderson/hebrews/5.htm">Anderson New Testament</a> In the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears, to him that was able to save him from death, and having been heard with respect to that which he feared, <a href="/godbey/hebrews/5.htm">Godbey New Testament</a> Who in the days of his flesh, having with strong crying and tears offered up both prayers and supplications unto him who is able to save him from death, and having been heard on account of his piety, <a href="/haweis/hebrews/5.htm">Haweis New Testament</a> who in the days of his flesh, with strong crying and tears, having offered up prayers and supplications to him who was able to save him from death, and being heard for his reverential awe, <a href="/mace/hebrews/5.htm">Mace New Testament</a> this was Jesus, who while he was in a mortal body, having offered up prayers and supplications, with strong cries, and with tears, to him that was able to save him from that death, was heard so as to be delivered from his fear; <a href="/wey/hebrews/5.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> For Jesus during his earthly life offered up prayers and entreaties, crying aloud and weeping as He pleaded with Him who was able to bring Him in safety out of death, and He was delivered from the terror from which He shrank. <a href="/worrell/hebrews/5.htm">Worrell New Testament</a> Who, in the days of His flesh, having offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to Him Who was able to save Him from death, and having been heard by reason of His godly fear, <a href="/worsley/hebrews/5.htm">Worsley New Testament</a> Who in the days of his flesh, offered prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears, to Him that was able to save Him from death, and was heard in what He feared; <a href="/parallel/hebrews/5-7.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/x-IAXXp5zcA?start=718" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/hebrews/5.htm">The Perfect High Priest</a> …6And in another passage God says: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.” 7<a href="/greek/3739.htm" title="3739: Hos (RelPro-NMS) -- Who, which, what, that. "></a> <a href="/greek/1722.htm" title="1722: en (Prep) -- In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; in, at, on, by, etc.">During</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tais (Art-DFP) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">the</a> <a href="/greek/2250.htm" title="2250: hēmerais (N-DFP) -- A day, the period from sunrise to sunset. ">days</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tēs (Art-GFS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">of</a> <a href="/greek/846.htm" title="846: autou (PPro-GM3S) -- He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.">Jesus’</a> <a href="/greek/4561.htm" title="4561: sarkos (N-GFS) -- Flesh, body, human nature, materiality; kindred. ">earthly life,</a> <a href="/greek/4374.htm" title="4374: prosenenkas (V-APA-NMS) -- From pros and phero; to bear towards, i.e. Lead to, tender, treat.">He offered up</a> <a href="/greek/5037.htm" title="5037: te (Conj) -- And, both. A primary particle of connection or addition; both or also."></a> <a href="/greek/1162.htm" title="1162: deēseis (N-AFP) -- Supplication, prayer, entreaty. From deomai; a petition.">prayers</a> <a href="/greek/2532.htm" title="2532: kai (Conj) -- And, even, also, namely. ">and</a> <a href="/greek/2428.htm" title="2428: hiketērias (N-AFP) -- From a derivative of the base of hikanos; intreaty.">petitions</a> <a href="/greek/3326.htm" title="3326: meta (Prep) -- (a) gen: with, in company with, (b) acc: (1) behind, beyond, after, of place, (2) after, of time, with nouns, neut. of adjectives. ">with</a> <a href="/greek/2478.htm" title="2478: ischyras (Adj-GFS) -- Strong (originally and generally of physical strength); mighty, powerful, vehement, sure. From ischus; forcible.">loud</a> <a href="/greek/2906.htm" title="2906: kraugēs (N-GFS) -- (a) a shout, cry, clamor, (b) outcry, clamoring against another. From krazo; an outcry.">cries</a> <a href="/greek/2532.htm" title="2532: kai (Conj) -- And, even, also, namely. ">and</a> <a href="/greek/1144.htm" title="1144: dakryōn (N-GNP) -- A tear. Or dakruon dak'-roo-on; of uncertain affinity; a tear.">tears</a> <a href="/greek/4314.htm" title="4314: pros (Prep) -- To, towards, with. A strengthened form of pro; a preposition of direction; forward to, i.e. Toward.">to</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: ton (Art-AMS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">the One who</a> <a href="/greek/1410.htm" title="1410: dynamenon (V-PPM/P-AMS) -- (a) I am powerful, have (the) power, (b) I am able, I can. Of uncertain affinity; to be able or possible.">could</a> <a href="/greek/4982.htm" title="4982: sōzein (V-PNA) -- To save, heal, preserve, rescue. From a primary sos; to save, i.e. Deliver or protect.">save</a> <a href="/greek/846.htm" title="846: auton (PPro-AM3S) -- He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.">Him</a> <a href="/greek/1537.htm" title="1537: ek (Prep) -- From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out.">from</a> <a href="/greek/2288.htm" title="2288: thanatou (N-GMS) -- Death, physical or spiritual. From thnesko; death.">death,</a> <a href="/greek/2532.htm" title="2532: kai (Conj) -- And, even, also, namely. ">and</a> <a href="/greek/1522.htm" title="1522: eisakoustheis (V-APP-NMS) -- To hear, listen to, heed. From eis and akouo; to listen to.">He was heard</a> <a href="/greek/575.htm" title="575: apo (Prep) -- From, away from. A primary particle; off, i.e. Away, in various senses.">because of</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tēs (Art-GFS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">His</a> <a href="/greek/2124.htm" title="2124: eulabeias (N-GFS) -- Reverence, fear of God, piety. From eulabes; properly, caution, i.e. reverence; by implication, dread.">reverence.</a> 8Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from what He suffered.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/luke/22-41.htm">Luke 22:41-44</a> And He withdrew about a stone’s throw beyond them, where He knelt down and prayed, / “Father, if You are willing, take this cup from Me. Yet not My will, but Yours be done.” / Then an angel from heaven appeared to Him and strengthened Him. ... <a href="/matthew/26-36.htm">Matthew 26:36-39</a> Then Jesus went with His disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and He told them, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.” / He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed. / Then He said to them, “My soul is consumed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with Me.” ... <a href="/mark/14-32.htm">Mark 14:32-36</a> Then they came to a place called Gethsemane, and Jesus told His disciples, “Sit here while I pray.” / He took with Him Peter, James, and John, and began to be deeply troubled and distressed. / Then He said to them, “My soul is consumed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch.” ... <a href="/john/11-41.htm">John 11:41-42</a> So they took away the stone. Then Jesus lifted His eyes upward and said, “Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. / I knew that You always hear Me, but I say this for the benefit of the people standing here, so they may believe that You sent Me.” <a href="/philippians/2-7.htm">Philippians 2:7-8</a> but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness. / And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross. <a href="/isaiah/53-3.htm">Isaiah 53:3-5</a> He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. / Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. / But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. <a href="/psalms/22-1.htm">Psalm 22:1-2</a> For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Doe of the Dawn.” A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning? / I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest. <a href="/psalms/116-1.htm">Psalm 116:1-4</a> I love the LORD, for He has heard my voice—my appeal for mercy. / Because He has inclined His ear to me, I will call on Him as long as I live. / The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow. ... <a href="/psalms/69-1.htm">Psalm 69:1-3</a> For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Lilies.” Of David. Save me, O God, for the waters are up to my neck. / I have sunk into the miry depths, where there is no footing; I have drifted into deep waters, where the flood engulfs me. / I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God. <a href="/john/12-27.htm">John 12:27-28</a> Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? No, it is for this purpose that I have come to this hour. / Father, glorify Your name!” Then a voice came from heaven: “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.” <a href="/romans/8-26.htm">Romans 8:26-27</a> In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how we ought to pray, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words. / And He who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. <a href="/1_peter/2-23.htm">1 Peter 2:23</a> When they heaped abuse on Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats, but entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly. <a href="/psalms/31-9.htm">Psalm 31:9-10</a> Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes fail from sorrow, my soul and body as well. / For my life is consumed with grief and my years with groaning; my iniquity has drained my strength, and my bones are wasting away. <a href="/psalms/40-1.htm">Psalm 40:1-3</a> For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; He inclined to me and heard my cry. / He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm. / He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the LORD. <a href="/psalms/88-1.htm">Psalm 88:1-3</a> A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. For the choirmaster. According to Mahalath Leannoth. A Maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD, the God of my salvation, day and night I cry out before You. / May my prayer come before You; incline Your ear to my cry. / For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears to him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;the.<a href="/hebrews/2-14.htm">Hebrews 2:14</a> Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;<a href="/john/1-14.htm">John 1:14</a> And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.<a href="/romans/8-3.htm">Romans 8:3</a> For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:when.<a href="/psalms/22-1.htm">Psalm 22:1-21</a> To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? … <a href="/psalms/69-1.htm">Psalm 69:1</a> To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.<a href="/psalms/88-1.htm">Psalm 88:1</a> A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite. O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:with.<a href="/matthew/27-46.htm">Matthew 27:46,50</a> And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? … <a href="/mark/15-34.htm">Mark 15:34,37</a> And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? … tears.<a href="/isaiah/53-3.htm">Isaiah 53:3,11</a> He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not… <a href="/john/11-35.htm">John 11:35</a> Jesus wept.unto.<a href="/matthew/26-52.htm">Matthew 26:52,53</a> Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword… <a href="/mark/14-36.htm">Mark 14:36</a> And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.and.<a href="/hebrews/13-20.htm">Hebrews 13:20</a> Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,<a href="/psalms/18-19.htm">Psalm 18:19,20</a> He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me… <div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/hebrews/5-2.htm">Able</a> <a href="/galatians/4-27.htm">Aloud</a> <a href="/galatians/4-6.htm">Crying</a> <a href="/hebrews/2-15.htm">Death</a> <a href="/colossians/3-25.htm">Earthly</a> <a href="/1_timothy/5-5.htm">Entreaties</a> <a href="/hebrews/4-16.htm">Fear</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/5-11.htm">Feared</a> <a href="/hebrews/2-14.htm">Flesh</a> <a href="/titus/2-12.htm">Godly</a> <a href="/hebrews/4-2.htm">Heard</a> <a href="/hebrews/4-14.htm">Jesus</a> <a href="/hebrews/4-12.htm">Life</a> <a href="/hebrews/2-3.htm">Offered</a> <a href="/2_timothy/1-3.htm">Petitions</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/12-8.htm">Pleaded</a> <a href="/philemon/1-4.htm">Prayer</a> <a href="/philemon/1-22.htm">Prayers</a> <a href="/1_timothy/2-1.htm">Requests</a> <a href="/titus/2-3.htm">Reverent</a> <a href="/hebrews/2-10.htm">Salvation</a> <a href="/titus/3-5.htm">Save</a> <a href="/hebrews/4-14.htm">Strong</a> <a href="/1_timothy/2-11.htm">Submission</a> <a href="/2_timothy/1-3.htm">Supplications</a> <a href="/2_timothy/1-4.htm">Tears</a> <a href="/2_timothy/1-4.htm">Weeping</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/hebrews/6-13.htm">Able</a> <a href="/james/4-9.htm">Aloud</a> <a href="/james/5-1.htm">Crying</a> <a href="/hebrews/6-1.htm">Death</a> <a href="/hebrews/9-1.htm">Earthly</a> <a href="/job/19-17.htm">Entreaties</a> <a href="/hebrews/10-19.htm">Fear</a> <a href="/genesis/3-10.htm">Feared</a> <a href="/hebrews/7-16.htm">Flesh</a> <a href="/hebrews/11-7.htm">Godly</a> <a href="/hebrews/12-19.htm">Heard</a> <a href="/hebrews/6-20.htm">Jesus</a> <a href="/hebrews/7-3.htm">Life</a> <a href="/hebrews/6-18.htm">Offered</a> <a href="/1_john/5-15.htm">Petitions</a> <a href="/genesis/42-21.htm">Pleaded</a> <a href="/hebrews/7-25.htm">Prayer</a> <a href="/hebrews/13-18.htm">Prayers</a> <a href="/1_john/3-22.htm">Requests</a> <a href="/1_peter/1-17.htm">Reverent</a> <a href="/hebrews/5-9.htm">Salvation</a> <a href="/hebrews/7-25.htm">Save</a> <a href="/hebrews/5-12.htm">Strong</a> <a href="/1_peter/3-22.htm">Submission</a> <a href="/1_peter/3-12.htm">Supplications</a> <a href="/hebrews/12-17.htm">Tears</a> <a href="/hebrews/12-17.htm">Weeping</a><div class="vheading2">Hebrews 5</div>1. <a href="/hebrews/5-1.htm">The honor of our Savior's priesthood.</a> 11. <a href="/hebrews/5-11.htm">Negligence in the knowledge thereof is reproved.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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It highlights His full participation in human experience, as seen in <a href="/john/1-14.htm">John 1:14</a>, where the Word became flesh. This period includes His birth, ministry, crucifixion, and resurrection, fulfilling prophecies such as <a href="/isaiah/7-14.htm">Isaiah 7:14</a> and <a href="/micah/5-2.htm">Micah 5:2</a>.He offered up prayers and petitions Jesus frequently prayed, demonstrating His dependence on the Father. This is evident in the Gospels, such as in <a href="/luke/5-16.htm">Luke 5:16</a>, where He often withdrew to pray. His prayers were both personal and intercessory, reflecting His role as a mediator (<a href="/1_timothy/2-5.htm">1 Timothy 2:5</a>).with loud cries and tears This phrase underscores the intensity and earnestness of Jesus' prayers, particularly in moments of deep anguish, such as in the Garden of Gethsemane (<a href="/matthew/26-36.htm">Matthew 26:36-39</a>). It reflects His genuine human emotions and His identification with human suffering, as prophesied in <a href="/isaiah/53-3.htm">Isaiah 53:3</a>.to the One who could save Him from death This refers to God the Father, highlighting Jesus' trust in God's power over life and death. While Jesus faced death on the cross, His resurrection was assured by the Father’s will, as seen in <a href="/acts/2-24.htm">Acts 2:24</a>. This also connects to the hope of resurrection for believers (<a href="/1_corinthians/15-20.htm">1 Corinthians 15:20-22</a>).and He was heard because of His reverence Jesus' prayers were effective because of His piety and submission to the Father’s will. His reverence is seen in His obedience, even unto death (<a href="/philippians/2-8.htm">Philippians 2:8</a>). This reverence is a model for believers, emphasizing the importance of a right heart posture in prayer (<a href="/james/5-16.htm">James 5:16</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/j/jesus_christ.htm">Jesus Christ</a> The central figure in this verse, highlighting His humanity and His role as the High Priest who intercedes for humanity. 2. <a href="/topical/g/god_the_father.htm">God the Father</a> Referred to as "the One who could save Him from death," emphasizing the relationship between Jesus and the Father. 3. <a href="/topical/t/the_days_of_jesus'_earthly_life.htm">The Days of Jesus' Earthly Life</a> This phrase refers to the period of Jesus' incarnation, His life on earth, and His ministry. 4. <a href="/topical/p/prayers_and_petitions.htm">Prayers and Petitions</a> These are the earnest supplications Jesus made, particularly in moments of deep anguish, such as in the Garden of Gethsemane. 5. <a href="/topical/r/reverence.htm">Reverence</a> The attitude of Jesus in His prayers, which was marked by deep respect and submission to the Father's will.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_humanity_of_jesus.htm">The Humanity of Jesus</a> Jesus fully experienced human emotions and struggles, which allows Him to empathize with our weaknesses. <a href="/topical/t/the_power_of_prayer.htm">The Power of Prayer</a> Jesus' example shows the importance of earnest prayer, especially in times of distress. We are encouraged to approach God with sincerity and reverence. <a href="/topical/r/reverence_in_prayer.htm">Reverence in Prayer</a> Our prayers should be marked by a deep respect for God’s will, trusting in His wisdom and timing. <a href="/topical/g/god's_response_to_reverence.htm">God's Response to Reverence</a> God hears and responds to prayers offered with a heart of reverence, as demonstrated by Jesus' experience. <a href="/topical/t/trust_in_god's_sovereignty.htm">Trust in God's Sovereignty</a> Even when facing death, Jesus trusted the Father’s plan. We are called to trust God’s sovereignty in our lives, even in difficult circumstances.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_hebrews_5.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Hebrews 5</a> <a href="/q/what_is_the_order_of_melchizedek.htm">What is the meaning of the Lord's Prayer?</a> <a href="/q/did_jesus_weep.htm">Did Jesus weep?</a> <a href="/q/how_does_jesus_'become'_savior_in_heb_5_9.htm">In Hebrews 5:9, how does Jesus “become” the source of eternal salvation if he was supposedly always the sinless savior? </a> <a href="/q/what's_the_prayer_of_jabez's_meaning.htm">What is the significance of the Prayer of Jabez?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/hebrews/5.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(7, 8) Who in the days of his flesh . . .--It will be observed that, of the two essential conditions mentioned in <a href="/hebrews/5-2.htm" title="Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.">Hebrews 5:2</a> and <a href="/hebrews/5-4.htm" title="And no man takes this honor to himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron.">Hebrews 5:4</a>, the latter is first taken up in its application to Christ (<a href="/context/hebrews/5-5.htm" title="So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said to him, You are my Son, to day have I begotten you.">Hebrews 5:5-6</a>). This verse and the next correspond to the general thought of <a href="/context/hebrews/5-1.htm" title="For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:">Hebrews 5:1-2</a>, so far as it is applicable to "Him who knew no sin."The following rendering will, it is believed, best show the meaning of these two important verses, and the connection of the several parts: Who, in the days of His flesh, having with a strong cry and tears offered up prayers and supplications unto Him that was able to save Him out of death, and having been heard for His reverent fear, though He was a son, yet learned obedience by the things which He suffered. The most noticeable change of rendering occurs at the close of the seventh verse; here the interpretation given by all the Greek Fathers, followed in most of our English versions (and in the margin of the Authorised itself), certainly deserves the preference over that which, through the influence of Calvin and Beza, found its way into the Genevan Testament, and hence into the Bishops' Bible and the translation of 1611. The word rendered "reverent fear" occurs in but one other place in the New Testament (<a href="/hebrews/12-28.htm" title="Why we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:">Hebrews 12:28</a>); but the kindred verb and adjective are found in <a href="/hebrews/11-7.htm" title="By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.">Hebrews 11:7</a>; <a href="/luke/2-25.htm" title="And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was on him.">Luke 2:25</a>; <a href="/acts/2-5.htm" title="And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.">Acts 2:5</a>; <a href="/acts/8-2.htm" title="And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.">Acts 8:2</a>. It properly denotes, not terror, but a cautious foreseeing fear, opposed alike to rashness and to cowardice: the adjective, which is always rendered "devout," is fully explained in the Notes on <a href="/acts/2-5.htm" title="And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.">Acts 2:5</a>. No word could be more suitable where the relation of the Son of Man to His "God and Father" is expressed and it would be very difficult to find any other word which should be suitable to this relation and yet contain no implication of sin to be acknowledged with humility and shame. The object of the "prayers and supplications" thus heard and answered is implied in the words "unto Him that was able to save Him out of death." Not "from death:" the Greek words may have that meaning, but it is not their most natural sense, as a comparison of other passages would show. The prayer, we are persuaded, was not that death might be averted, but that there might be granted deliverance out of death. This prayer was answered: His death was the beginning of His glory (<a href="/hebrews/2-9.htm" title="But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.">Hebrews 2:9</a>). It may indeed be asked, Could such a prayer be offered by One who knew "the glory that should follow" His sufferings? In a matter so far beyond our reasoning it is most reverent to point to the mystery of another prayer (<a href="/matthew/26-39.htm" title="And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as you will.">Matthew 26:39</a>) offered by Him who had often taught His disciples that He must be put to death (<a href="/matthew/16-21.htm" title="From that time forth began Jesus to show to his disciples, how that he must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.">Matthew 16:21</a>). Mark the striking correspondence between the petition thus understood and St. Peter's quotation of <a href="/psalms/16-10.htm" title="For you will not leave my soul in hell; neither will you suffer your Holy One to see corruption.">Psalm 16:10</a> (<a href="/acts/2-24.htm" title="Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be held of it.">Acts 2:24</a>). Some of the expressions in this verse would lead us to believe that the writer's thought is resting on the Agony in the Garden; but the "strong cry" brings before us the Crucifixion (<a href="/matthew/27-46.htm" title="And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?">Matthew 27:46</a>; <a href="/matthew/27-50.htm" title="Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.">Matthew 27:50</a>), and the words of <a href="/psalms/22-1.htm" title="My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?">Psalm 22:1</a> lie very near the thought of this verse. It does not seem necessary to decide--we may doubt whether it is possible, and whether both should not be included. The opening words, "in the days of His flesh" (comp. <a href="/hebrews/2-14.htm" title="For as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;">Hebrews 2:14</a>; <a href="/john/1-14.htm" title="And the Word was made flesh, and dwelled among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.">John 1:14</a>; <a href="/1_peter/3-18.htm" title="For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:">1Peter 3:18</a>), would certainly seem to favour this latter view. The word "offered" must not be lightly passed over. Of frequent occurrence in this Epistle, in every case except one (which is not at all in point) it has a sacrificial sense; it seems certain, therefore, that these prayers--a token of His suffering, an example of His reverent fear--are included in the sacrifice which comprised His whole life and death. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/hebrews/5.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verses 7, 8. - Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up (rather, when he offered up) prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered. Here (according to the view taken above of the chiastic structure of the passage) we have the account of how Christ fulfilled the human requirements of a High Priest, referred to in vers. 2, 3. This main intention of vers. 7, 8 must be kept in mind for a proper understanding of them. Christ is in them regarded, not as executing his priestly office, but as being prepared and consecrated for it. His eternal priesthood is conceived as entered on after the human experience which is the subject of these verses (cf. καὶ τελειώθεις ἐγένετο (ver. 9), and what was said under ver. 5). With regard to the participial aorists, προσενέγκας αἰσακουσθείς, it is a misapprehension of their proper force to regard them as denoting a time previous to that of ἔμαθεν in ver. 8; as if the meaning were - having in Gethsemane "offered," etc., and "been heard," he afterwards "learnt obedience" on the cross. All they express is that in offering, etc., and being heard, he learned obedience. The idea of subsequent time does not come in till ver. 9; "and being perfected," after thus learning obedience, "he became," etc. Thus the only question with regard to time in vers. 7, 8 is whether they have reference to the agony in the garden only, or both to the agony and the cross. That they refer mainly, if not exclusively, to the agony is evident from the expressions used, corresponding so closely with the Gospel history. The view presented is, as in the Gospels, of some intense inward struggle, outwardly manifested, and expressing itself in repeated prayers (observe the plural, δεήσεις καὶ ἱκετηρίας) aloud for deliverance. It is true that the Gospels, as we have them now, do not mention tears; but these too are quite in keeping with the bloody sweat specified by St. Luke, and Epiphanius states that the original copies of <a href="/luke/22-43.htm">Luke 22:43, 44</a> contained the verb ἔκλαυσε. Some interpreters would identify the κραυγή ἰσχυρά of ver. 7 with the "loud voice (φωνή μεγάλη)" from the cross (<a href="/matthew/27-46.htm">Matthew 27:46</a>; <a href="/mark/15-34.htm">Mark 15:34</a>; <a href="/luke/23-46.htm">Luke 23:46</a>). But there is nothing to suggest this; the "strong crying and tears" evidently denote the manner of the "prayers and supplications;" and the thrice-repeated prayer in the garden recorded by the evangelists may be well conceived to have been thus loudly uttered, so as to be heard by the three disciples, a stone's cast distant, before sleep overcame them. "In cruce clamasse dicitur; lachrymasse non dicitur. Utrum horum respicit locum Gethsemane" (Bengel). What, then, as seen in the light of these verses, was the meaning of the "prayer and supplications" in the garden of Gethsemane? The expression, τὸν δυνάμενον σώζειν αὐτὸν ἐκ θανάτου, corresponding with πάντα δυνατά σοι of <a href="/mark/14-36.htm">Mark 14:36</a>, confirms the view that the "cup" which he prayed might pass from him, was the death before him, and that the purport of his prayer was, not to be raised from death after undergoing it, but to be saved from undergoing it. Such is the ordinary meaning of σώζειν ἐκ θανάτου in reference to one still alive (cf. <a href="/psalms/33-19.htm">Psalm 33:19</a>; <a href="/james/5-20.htm">James 5:20</a>). It does not indeed positively follow that, because he prayed to One who was able in this sense to save him, his prayer was that he might be in this sense saved. It is, however, the natural inference. But, if so, two difficulties present themselves. (1) How was such a prayer consistent with his distinct knowledge that death must be undergone, and his late strong rebuke to Peter for venturing to dissuade him from it? (2) How can he be said to have been heard (εἰσακουσθείς), since he was not saved from death in the sense intended? To the first of these questions the answer is that the prayer expressed, not the deliberate desire of his Divine will, but only the inevitable shrinking of the human will from such an ordeal as was before him. As man, he experienced this shrinking to the full, and as man he craved deliverance, though with entire submission to the will of the Father. His human will did not oppose itself to the Divine will: it conformed itself in the end entirely to it; but this according to the necessary conditions of humanity, through the power of prayer. Had it not been so with him, his participation in human nature would have been incomplete; he would not have been such as to be "touched with a feeling of our infirmities, being in all things tempted like as we are;" nor would he have stood forth for ever as the great Example to mankind. St. John, who so deeply enters into and interprets the mind of Christ, records an utterance before the agony which anticipates its meaning (<a href="/john/12.htm">John 12</a>): "The hour is come" (ver. 23); and then (ver. 27), "Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour [cf. σώζειν ἐκ θανάτου]; but for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify thy Name." The "hour" was that of the drinking of the cup (cf. <a href="/mark/14-35.htm">Mark 14:35</a>, "And prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him"). "Father, save me from this hour" was the human craving of the agony; but still, "Father, glorify thy Name" was the essence of the prayer; and perfect submission to the Divine will was the outcome of it, after this troubling of his human soul. The mystery surrounding the whole subject of the Divine and human in Christ remains still. What was said with regard to it about the temptation in the wilderness (<a href="/hebrews/4-15.htm">Hebrews 4:15</a>) is applicable also here. If it be further asked how it was that Christ, in his humanity, so shrank from the "cup" before him, seeing that mere men have been found to face death calmly in its most appalling forms, the answer may be found in the consideration of what this cup implied. It was more than physical death, more than physical pain, more than any sorrow that falls to the lot of man. Such expressions as Ἤρξατο λυπεῖσθαι καὶ ἀδημονεῖν... περίλυπος ἐστὶν ἡ ψυχή μου ἕως θανάτου (<a href="/matthew/26-37.htm">Matthew 26:37, 38</a>); Ἤρξατο ἐκθαμβεῖσθαι καὶ ἀδημονεῖν (<a href="/mark/14-33.htm">Mark 14:33</a>); Γενόμενος ἐν ἀγωυίᾳ ἐκτενεστερον προσηύχετο (<a href="/luke/22-44.htm">Luke 22:44</a>); the bloody sweat, and the cry of "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" - convey in themselves the impression of a mysterious ordeal, beyond what we can fathom, undergone by the atoning Savior in that "hour" of the "power of darkness." Of the second difficulty mentioned above, as to how Christ was "heard," not having been saved "from death" in the apparent sense of his prayer, the solution may be that the prayer, conditioned as it was by εἰ δυνατὸν, was most truly answered by the angel sent to strengthen him, and the power thenceforth given him to "endure the cross, despising the shame." "Mortem ex qua Pater cum liberare posset, ne moreretur, tamen subiit, voluntati Patris obediens: ab horrore plane liberatus est per exauditionem Exauditus est, non ut ne biberet calicem, sed ut jam sine ullo horrore biberet: unde etiam per angelum corroboratus est" (Bengel). The example to us thus becomes the more apparent. For we, too, praying legitimately for release from excessive trial, may have our prayer best answered by grace given to endure the trial, and by "a happy issue" out of it; as was the case with Christ. For his bitter passion was made the path to eternal glory; and thus in the Resurrection too his prayer was answered. The exact meaning of εἰσακουσθεὶς ἀπὸ τῆς εὐλαβείας is not easy to determine. It is taken by a large proportion of commentators to mean "deliverance from his fear;" εἰσακουσθεὶς ἀπὸ being supposed to be a constructio praegnans in the sense of "heard so as to be delivered," and εὐλαβεία to denote the dread experienced in Gethsemane. So the old Italian Versions, and Ambrose, "exauditus a metu;" so Bengel, "ab hrr-rore liberatus per exauditlonem." This interpretation is upheld by Beza, Grotius, Tholuck, Hofmann, Ebrard, and many others; some of whom, less tenably (as Calvin, Hammond, Jackson), understand εὐλαβεία as meaning, not the fear felt, but the thing feted: "ab eo quod timebat" (Calvin). The objections to this view are (1) the doubtfulness of the constructio praegnans (the instances adduced - ἐπήκουσέ μου εἰς πλατυσμόν, <a href="/psalms/118-5.htm">Psalm 118:5</a>; ἐρραντισμένοι... ἀπὸ συνειδήσεας πονηρᾶς, <a href="/hebrews/10-22.htm">Hebrews 10:22</a> - are not parallel); and . . . <a href="/commentaries/hebrews/5-7.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Greek</div>During ἐν (en) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_1722.htm">Strong's 1722: </a> In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc. the ταῖς (tais) Article - Dative Feminine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. days ἡμέραις (hēmerais) Noun - Dative Feminine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_2250.htm">Strong's 2250: </a> A day, the period from sunrise to sunset. of τῆς (tēs) Article - Genitive Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. [Jesus’] αὐτοῦ (autou) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_846.htm">Strong's 846: </a> He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. earthly [life], σαρκὸς (sarkos) Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_4561.htm">Strong's 4561: </a> Flesh, body, human nature, materiality; kindred. He offered up προσενέγκας (prosenenkas) Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_4374.htm">Strong's 4374: </a> From pros and phero; to bear towards, i.e. Lead to, tender, treat. prayers δεήσεις (deēseis) Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_1162.htm">Strong's 1162: </a> Supplication, prayer, entreaty. From deomai; a petition. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_2532.htm">Strong's 2532: </a> And, even, also, namely. petitions ἱκετηρίας (hiketērias) Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_2428.htm">Strong's 2428: </a> From a derivative of the base of hikanos; intreaty. with μετὰ (meta) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_3326.htm">Strong's 3326: </a> (a) gen: with, in company with, (b) acc: (1) behind, beyond, after, of place, (2) after, of time, with nouns, neut. of adjectives. loud ἰσχυρᾶς (ischyras) Adjective - Genitive Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_2478.htm">Strong's 2478: </a> Strong (originally and generally of physical strength); mighty, powerful, vehement, sure. From ischus; forcible. cries κραυγῆς (kraugēs) Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_2906.htm">Strong's 2906: </a> (a) a shout, cry, clamor, (b) outcry, clamoring against another. From krazo; an outcry. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_2532.htm">Strong's 2532: </a> And, even, also, namely. tears δακρύων (dakryōn) Noun - Genitive Neuter Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_1144.htm">Strong's 1144: </a> A tear. Or dakruon dak'-roo-on; of uncertain affinity; a tear. to πρὸς (pros) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_4314.htm">Strong's 4314: </a> To, towards, with. A strengthened form of pro; a preposition of direction; forward to, i.e. Toward. the [One who] τὸν (ton) Article - Accusative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. could δυνάμενον (dynamenon) Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Accusative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_1410.htm">Strong's 1410: </a> (a) I am powerful, have (the) power, (b) I am able, I can. Of uncertain affinity; to be able or possible. save σῴζειν (sōzein) Verb - Present Infinitive Active <a href="/greek/strongs_4982.htm">Strong's 4982: </a> To save, heal, preserve, rescue. From a primary sos; to save, i.e. Deliver or protect. Him αὐτὸν (auton) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_846.htm">Strong's 846: </a> He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. from ἐκ (ek) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_1537.htm">Strong's 1537: </a> From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out. death, θανάτου (thanatou) Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_2288.htm">Strong's 2288: </a> Death, physical or spiritual. From thnesko; death. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_2532.htm">Strong's 2532: </a> And, even, also, namely. He was heard εἰσακουσθεὶς (eisakoustheis) Verb - Aorist Participle Passive - Nominative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_1522.htm">Strong's 1522: </a> To hear, listen to, heed. From eis and akouo; to listen to. because of ἀπὸ (apo) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_575.htm">Strong's 575: </a> From, away from. A primary particle; 'off, ' i.e. Away, in various senses. [His] τῆς (tēs) Article - Genitive Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. reverence. εὐλαβείας (eulabeias) Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_2124.htm">Strong's 2124: </a> Reverence, fear of God, piety. 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