JESUS, whose PRAYER was HEARD: “who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear” (Heb 5:7). But was He saved from death? Here we are helped to understand that the word “from” (ek) is “a primary preposition denoting origin (the point whence action or motion proceeds), out of.” He was saved out of death, glory to His name! But His prayer to be saved out of death could not come to pass without His first passing into the realm of death. What a remarkable passage was that! This is the Author of life, for nothing came to be without Him (Jn 1:3). He is the Sustainer of life, for He upholds everything by the word of His power (Heb1:3). He is the Giver of life, and no one has that eternal life without receiving Him. And, yes, He is the Lord of life, having conquered death in its own domain, and stepping out into “the power of an endless life” (7:16).