When understanding Hebrews 4:15 What needs to be considered is the true meaning of infirmities in Hebrews 4:15..
Hebrews 4:15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Don’t focus on the word “infirmities” be focus on the word “feelings” and the phrase “the feeling of our infirmities”.
This scripture is pointing out what happened to Jesus in the garden when he “sweat was as it were great drops of blood”.
Luke 22:44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
Jesus realized the outcome of all our infirmities..which was and is the fear of death.
Hebrews 5:7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared.
Jesus experienced the fear of death during that encounter. This experience gave him a profound understanding of the true meaning of every infirmity that can lead to death, which is common to all men. He comprehended the agony (suffering, torment, anguish, affliction, misery, distress, grief, woe, heartbreak, and heartache) that everyone feels in their infirmities. Jesus is intimately aware of this fear.
Hebrews 2:13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me.
Hebrews 2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
Hebrews 2:15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
Hebrews 2:16 For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.
Take heart for he triumphed over death!
2Timothy 1:10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
Concerning the part of this scripture;
Hebrews 4:15 but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
All “points” referred to everything that was considered a sin in the Old and New Testaments. Jesus had learned about these sins through the Word of God, just as every man should read and learn what to do and what not to do. Jesus was well-versed in every point of sin that was addressed and taught through the Word of God and did not engage in any sin.
Just as God cannot be tempted, neither can Jesus.
James 1:13 Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
John 14:7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
This is why Jesus is called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec. Jesus proved this when he said:
John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
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