<p>4:15 <i>For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in all things, yet did not sin</i>- See on :14. Note carefully the tense used: &quot;We have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities&quot;. It doesn't say 'which could not have been touched...', but rather &quot;which cannot present tense be touched&quot;. It's as if He is <i>now</i> touched with the feeling of our infirmities. Which opens a fascinating window into what having God's nature is all about. When we by grace come to share it, it's not just that we will dimly remember what it was like to be human. We will somehow still be able to be touched by those feelings, in sympathy with those who still have that nature during the Millennial reign. The only other time the Spirit uses the Greek word translated &quot;touched with the feeling...&quot; is in Heb. 10:34, where we read of how the Hebrew Christians &quot;had compassion of me&quot;, the writer of the letter. The link, within the same letter, is surely to reflect how they had been so compelled by their Lord's fellow feelings toward them, His fellow feeling for them right now, that they in turn came to feel like this for their suffering brother. A related word is found in 1 Pet. 3:8: &quot;Having <i>compassion one of another</i>, love as brethren&quot;. The wonder of the fact that Jesus feels for us, that He can enter into our feelings, should result in our seeing to get inside the feelings of others, empathizing with them, feeling for them and with them. It's this feature of the Lord Jesus which enables Him to be such a matchless mediator. Stephen saw Him <i>standing</i> at the right hand of the throne in Heaven, when usually, Hebrews stresses, He <i>sits</i>. The Lord was and is so passionately, compassionately, caught up in the needs of His brethren that this is how He mediates for us. And it's the same Jesus, who walked round Galilee with a heart of compassion for kids, for the mentally sick, for oppressed and abused women... even for the hard hearted Pharisees whom He would fain have gathered under His loving wings, such was His desire for others' salvation.&nbsp;Jesus, despite the moral splendour of Divine nature, is still able to be <i>touched</i> with the feeling of our infirmities as He intercedes for the forgiveness of our sins.</p>