John 10:17
"The Father loves me for this, because I am laying down my life that I may take it again.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
In Context
Cross References
John 3:25Then some of John’s disciples got into a controversy with a Jew in regard to purification; so they came to John and said to him.
John 10:15just as the Father knows me, I know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep.
John 15:9"As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love.
John 17:24"Father, it is my will that wherever I am these also, thy gift to me, may be with me, that they may see the glory, my glory which thou hast given me, because thou didst love me before the foundations of the world.
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 →