John 10:18
There is no one that taketh it from me; but I lay it down of my own pleasure: for I have authority to lay it down, and authority to resume it again; because I have received this command from my Father.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
17For this cause my Father loveth me, that I lay down my life, to resume it again.
19And again there was a division among the Jews, on account of these sayings.
Cross References
Matthew 26:53Supposest thou that I cannot ask of my Father, and he now assign me more than twelve legions of angels?
John 5:30I can do nothing of my own pleasure; but as I hear, so I judge. And my judgment is just; for I seek not my own pleasure, but the pleasure of him that sent me.
John 10:11I am a good shepherd. A good shepherd exposeth his life for the sheep.
John 10:17For this cause my Father loveth me, that I lay down my life, to resume it again.
John 15:10If ye shall keep my commands, ye will abide in the love of me, as I have kept the commands of my Father, 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 →