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"For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin." Heb 4:15

"In the past when I’ve heard that verse or read it, I’ve thought that it is a very all-encompassing statement to say that Jesus was tempted in all things as we are, when so relatively little is written about Him. But when it is brought to my attention that He lived 30 years of which we know nothing, then it becomes much easier for me to understand that He lived the full life of a boy, a teen, and a young man, experiencing all that goes with those passages of life – except without sin." c.e.t.

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