Draw Near to the Gentle High Priest: Christ’s Compassion for the Guilty and the Grieving

Reformed Thinking · Aug 7, 2026 · 39m

Deep Dive into Draw Near to the Gentle High Priest: Christ’s Compassion for the Guilty and the GrievingThe epistles to the Hebrews present Jesus Christ as a perfectly qualified High Priest who exercises profound, measured compassion toward sinners and sufferers. Hebrews 5:2 highlights that a high priest must be able to deal gently with the ignorant and wayward. The Greek term used for this concept, metriopathein, describes a restrained, proportionate response rather than explosive anger or indifferent detachment.While ordinary human priests learned this gentleness because they were surrounded…