But this is not true. He paid taxes. He obeyed the laws of the land. And only when those who were in authority went directly against the higher authority of the Father did Jesus turn again the lower authority to submit to that higher authority. You need to know this because you are called to follow the same example.
Christians are people who are called to obey authority.
In the days of His flesh, He offered up both prayers and suplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His piety. We have seen that Jesus is a mediating priest, a gentle priest and an appointed priest. When we think of the suffering of Jesus, was are drawn to the pain of His beatings during the trials, the crown of thorns and the scourging and later the torture of the crucifixion with the nails in His hands and feet. But the suffering which is viewed in this verse is different. It is not the suffering upon the cross.