John 10:18
No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. I received this commandment from my Father.”
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
In Context
17This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life so that I may take it up again.
19At these words there was again a division among the Jews.
Cross References
Matthew 26:53Or do yoʋ think that I cannot call on my Father right now, and he will provide me with more than twelve legions of angels?
John 5:30“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.
John 10:11I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
John 10:17This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life so 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 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 →