When we have a sad and sorry tale to tell, when life has drenched us with tears, we do not go to a God who is incapable of understanding what has happened; we go to a God who has been there. . . . He knows our problems because he has come through them. The best person to give you advice and help on a journey is someone who has travelled the road before you. God can help because he knows it all. Jesus is the perfect high priest because he is perfectly God and perfectly man. Because he has known our life he can give us sympathy, mercy and power. He brought God to men and he can bring men to God.
- William Barclay, The Letter to the Hebrews, The Daily Study Bible Series (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1976).