John 10:18
No man taketh it away from me: but I lay it down of myself, and I have power to lay it down: and I have power to take it up again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
17Therefore doth the Father love me: because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.
19A dissension rose again among the Jews for these words.
Cross References
Psalms 40:6Thou hast multiplied thy wonderful works, O Lord my God : and in thy thoughts there is no one like to thee. I have declared and I have spoken they are multiplied above number.
Matthew 26:53Thinkest thou that I cannot ask my Father, and he will give me presently more than twelve legions of angels?
John 5:30I cannot of myself do any thing. As I hear, so I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not my own will, but the will of him that sent me.
John 10:11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep.
John 10:17Therefore doth the Father love me: because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.
John 15:10dummy verses inserted by amos
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 →