He understands.

In Hebrews, we read that we have a high priest who know us, know about us, knows what it’s like to be alive, knows what it’s like to lose friends and family members, to struggle with a lack of food, to see discrimination and to respond to it.

In his walking around earth, Jesus apparently watched his step-dad die, heard about the murder of his relative and colleague John the Baptist. He stepped across gender and religious boundaries to have meaningful conversations with a Samaritan woman an...