Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Though He WAS (so it ought to be translated: a positive admitted fact: not a mere supposition as were would imply) God's divine Son (whence, even in His agony, He so lovingly and often cried, Father, Matthew 26:39), yet He learned His (so the Greek) obedience, not from His Sonship, but from His sufferings. As the Son, He was always obedient to the Father's will; but the special obedience needed to qualify Him as our High Priest, He learned experimentally in practical suffering. Compare Philippians 2:6-8, "equal with God, but . . . took upon Him the form of a servant, and became obedient unto death," etc. He was obedient already before His passion, but He stooped to a still more humiliating and trying form of obedience then. The Greek adage is, "Pathemata mathemata," "sufferings, disciplinings." Praying and obeying, as in Christ's case, ought to go hand in hand.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Psalms 16:8
Psalms 40:1-3
Isaiah 50:4
Philippians 2:8
Philippians 4:11
Hebrews 2:17
Hebrews 5:1
Hebrews 5:7
Hebrews 12:9
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