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No one takes this honor for himself. Instead, God calls him as he called Aaron. So Christ did not take the glory of being a chief priest for himself. Instead, the glory was given to him by God, who said,

“You are my Son.
    Today I have become your Father.”

In another place in Scripture, God said,

“You are a priest forever,
    in the way Melchizedek was a priest.”

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