John 10:18
No man taketh it from me: but I put it awaye of my selfe. I have power to put it from me and have power to take it agayne: This comaundment have I receaved of my father.
William Tyndale Bible (1525/1530)
In The King James Version
In Context
17Therfore doth my father love me because I put my lyfe from me that I myght take it agayne.
19And ther was a dissencion agayne amoge the Iewes for these sayinges
Cross References
Matthew 26:53Ether thinkest thou that I cannot now praye to my father and he shall geve me moo then.xii. legions of angelles?
John 5:30I can of myne awne selfe do nothinge at all. As I heare I iudge and my iudgemet is iust because I seke not myne awne will but the will of ye father which hath sent me.
John 10:11I am ye good shepeheerd. The good shepeheerd geveth his lyfe for ye shepe.
John 10:17Therfore doth my father love me because I put my lyfe from me that I myght take it agayne.
John 15:10Yf ye shall kepe my comaudemetes ye shall byde in my love eve as I have kept my fathers comaundementes and byde 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 →