John 10:18
No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
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In Context
17Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
19There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings.
Cross References
Psalms 40:6Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; 1 Mine ears hast thou opened: 1 Burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. 1
Matthew 26:53Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?
John 5:30I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.
John 10:11I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
John 10:17Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
John 15:10If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and 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 →