--- title: "Hebrews 3 - Study King James Bible with ellicotts commentary for english readers" description: "Read Hebrews 3 with ellicotts commentary for english readers commentary. 1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; 2 Who was faithful to" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/ellicotts-commentary-for-english-readers/hebrews/3" --- [ Read](/kjv/hebrews/3)[ Commentary](/study/hebrews/3)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/hebrews/3) Audio 1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; 2 Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses *was faithful* in all his house. 3 For this *man* was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house. 4 For every house is builded by some *man*; but he that built all things *is* God. 5 And Moses verily *was* faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; 6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. 7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, 8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. 10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in *their* heart; and they have not known my ways. 11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) 12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. 13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; 15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. 16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. 17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? *was it* not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. [Hebrews 2](/study/hebrews/2) [Hebrews 4](/study/hebrews/4) ## Commentary To verse 1 (1) **Wherefore.**—The address which here begins (the first direct address in the Epistle) bears the same relation to all that has preceded, as [Hebrews 2:1-4](/kjv/hebrews/2/1-4) bears to the first chapter. In particular, the contents of the second chapter are gathered up in this verse, almost every word of which recalls some previous statement or result. **Holy brethren.**—United in one brotherhood in virtue of a common sonship ([Hebrews 2:10](/kjv/hebrews/2/10)) and of a common brotherhood ([Hebrews 2:11](/kjv/hebrews/2/11)) with Jesus, Him “that sanctifieth” ([Hebrews 2:11](/kjv/hebrews/2/11)). **Partakers.**—Through Him who “took part” of our earthly nature ([Hebrews 2:14](/kjv/hebrews/2/14)) we are partakers of a “heavenly calling” ([Hebrews 2:10](/kjv/hebrews/2/10)) as God’s sons. **The Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus.**—The best MSS. omit “Christ”; and it is impossible not to feel how fitly the personal name “Jesus” is used after the later verses of [Hebrews 2:0](/kjv/hebrews/2/0). Here only is the name Apostle directly given to our Lord; but the thought is present in [Hebrews 2:3](/kjv/hebrews/2/3), and in the many passages in which Jesus designates Himself as the Sent of God, using the word from which *Apostle* is derived ([John 3:17](/kjv/john/3/17); [John 5:36](/kjv/john/5/36), *et al*.; especially [John 17:18](/kjv/john/17/18); [John 20:21](/kjv/john/20/21)). There is very little difference between *Apostle* and *Prophet,*thus applied; but the one brings into relief the mission, the other the office and position. Each presents a thought complementary of that contained in high priest: “as Apostle Jesus pleads the cause of God with us; as High Priest He pleads our cause with God” (Bengel). 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