Jeremiah tells us about the Covenant God made with His people through Moses and how they failed to honour it. This Old Covenant was broken, even though it was undertaken most solemnly and sealed with the blood of animal sacrifice. In the second, the New Covenant, the blood of Jesus on the Cross was to seal it and the promise to be God's people was to be written, not in stone as the first Covenant was, but in their very hearts. The knowledge of God as their God could not be so easily side-stepped. This Jesus, "the source of eternal salvation", (Hebrews:5:9) , we are told by Paul, submitted humbly to God's plan for Him to be part of this New Covenant.

He obeyed "through suffering" (Hebrews:5:8). The necessity for this He explains in John's Gospel when the Greeks asked to see Him. Jesus' point was that it was imperative for them not just to see Him physically but more to 'see' the truth about Him; to 'see' the role of self-abandonment to the Father's will in his life, and in our lives too if we wish to consider ourselves His followers, thus participating in the New Covenant. By doing so, we might 'see' not just the man in Jesus, but His life being a glorification of God's Name.