Hebrews 2:13 Jesus as father?

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Does this mean that Jesus is our immediate father and he gives us to God to be adopted ?

Hebrews 2:13
Behold, I and the children God has given me.
 
Looking at the whole section, it gives examples of Our Lord placing Himself among us, His brothers and sisters, both He and we being children of God.

When he says,
“Here am I, and the children God has given me”, it is in the same vein. He does not say “Here am I, and my children God has given me.”

Harder to grasp is the relationship within the three persons of the Most Holy Trinity.

Let us seek in ourselves brotherly affection for Our Lord as our neighbour.
 
Through HIM we are gifted with sonship to the Father.

Hence Jesus is or Brother. Is that not amazing? Brothers to GOD but we need to become brothers to one another.

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Does this mean that Jesus is our immediate father and he gives us to God to be adopted ?

Hebrews 2:13
Behold, I and the children God has given me.
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There is more than one way to use the word “children.” There are metaphorical ways to use that word without implying that Jesus is the kind of father that God the Father is. One metaphorical way to be someone’s child is to be their student. Jesus uses this metaphor in these verses:

John 13:33 - “Little children, yet a little while I am with you.”

John 21:5 - Jesus said to them, “Children, have you any fish?”

Matthew 23:37 - “How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not!”

Mark 10:24 - “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!”

Luke 7:34-34 - “The Son of man has come eating and drinking; and you say [he is] a glutton and a drunkard… Yet wisdom is justified by all her children.”

Heb. 2:13 seems to be using the term in this way, or in some other way, because there are several metaphors involving Jesus having spiritual children in a sense that doesn’t make Him the Father.
 
And, if you can read in the original language, Jesus often uses “little ones” to mean the poor and needy rather than children.
 
The Gospel According to Luke, Chapter 18, Verse 16
But Jesus called the children to him and said, ‘Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them;’
 
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