Hebrews 2:10 - Perfect through suffering

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The writer now goes on to explain the essentialness of Jesus’ humanity and His suffering. Both of these were a scandal to the Jewish religious leaders. How could a man be the Son of God, and how could the Messiah suffer? Even worse, how could the Son of God suffer God’s wrath? The writer says that “it was fitting” that the saviour be made perfect through suffering. The first thing to note is that all this is instigated by God, “for whom and by whom all things exist”. That God is the creator of absolutely everything is an underlying assumption throughout Hebrews, and will come to the fore again in chapter 11. Jesus is described as the “founder of their salvation”, or the “pioneer of their salvation”.  Jesus led the way. Jesus was raised from the dead, never to die again, so we will be raised from the dead never to die again. He was raised to glory, so we will be raised to glory. In saying that Jesus was made perfect the writer is not implying that He was in any way imperfect, but that the process of suffering made Him the perfect saviour, everything that needed to be done in order to enable Him to be our saviour was done.