John 10:15
As the Father knows me, I also know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
In Context
14I am the good shepherd, and I know my sheep, and am known by mine.
Cross References
Matthew 20:28even as the Son of man came, not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
John 1:18No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has revealed him.
John 8:55And yet you have not known him. But I know him; and if I should say that I do not know him, I should be like yourselves, a liar. But I know him, and I keep his word.
Matthew Henry on John 10:2-19
The Good Shepherd. 1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. 2 But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. 4 And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. 5 And a stranger will they not follow, but… Read the whole commentary →