John 10:18
No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This command I have received from My Father.”
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
In Context
17“For this reason My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it up again.
19Therefore there was a division again among the Jews because of these words.
Cross References
Matthew 26:53Or do you think that I cannot now call upon My Father, and He will furnish Me with more than twelve legions of angels?
John 5:30I can of My own self do nothing. Even as I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me. 1 The Fourfold Witness
John 10:11“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.
John 10:17“For this reason My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it up again.
John 15:10If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and I abide in His love.
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 →