14. Those children have bodies made out of flesh and blood. So Jesus became human like them in order to die for them. By doing that, he could destroy the one who rules over the kingdom of death. I'm talking about the devil.
15. Jesus could set people free who were afraid of death. All their lives they were held as slaves by that fear.
16. It is certainly Abraham's children that he helps. He doesn't help angels.
17. So he had to be made like his brothers in every way. Then he could serve God as a kind and faithful high priest. And then he could pay for the sins of the people by dying for them.