John 10:18

Bible in Basic English (1941)

No one takes it away from me; I give it up of myself. I have power to give it up, and I have power to take it again. These orders I have from my Father.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οὐδεὶς αἴρει αὐτὴν ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ, ἀλλʼ ἐγὼ τίθημι αὐτὴν ἀπʼ ἐμαυτοῦ. Ἐξουσίαν ἔχω θεῖναι αὐτήν, καὶ ἐξουσίαν ἔχω πάλιν λαβεῖν αὐτήν. Ταύτην τὴν ἐντολὴν ἔλαβον παρὰ τοῦ Πατρός μου.

Transliteration

No one airei it from emou, but egō tithēmi it from emautou. Exousian echō theinai it, and exousian echō palin labein it. This the entolēn elabon para the Patros of me.

Grammar Details

• *airei*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - takes/lifts
• *emou*: genitive, 1st person singular pronoun - of me/from me
• *egō tithēmi*: present active indicative, 1st person singular with pronoun - I lay down
• *emautou*: genitive, masculine, 1st person singular, reflexive pronoun - of myself
• *Exousian*: accusative, feminine, singular - authority/power
• *echō*: present active indicative, 1st person singular - I have
• *theinai*: aorist active infinitive - to lay down/place
• *palin*: adverb - again/once more
• *labein*: aorist active infinitive - to take/receive
• *entolēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - command/instruction
• *elabon*: aorist active indicative, 1st person singular - I received
• *para*: preposition + genitive - from/beside
• *Patros*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Father

Word Meanings

• *airei*: takes/lifts/removes
• *tithēmi*: lay down/place/give
• *emautou*: myself
• *Exousian*: authority/power/right
• *echō*: have/possess/hold
• *theinai*: to lay down/place/put
• *palin*: again/once more/back
• *labein*: to take/receive/grasp
• *entolēn*: command/instruction/order
• *elabon*: received/took/got
• *para*: from/beside/alongside
• *Patros*: Father

Referenced Verses

• John 10:17 : 17 For this reason am I loved by the Father, because I give up my life so that I may take it again.
• John 14:31 : 31 But he comes so that the world may see that I have love for the Father, and that I am doing as I am ordered by the Father. Get up, and let us go.
• John 15:10 : 10 If you keep my laws, you will be ever in my love, even as I have kept my Father's laws, and am ever in his love.
• Heb 2:9 : 9 But we see him who was made a little lower than the angels, even Jesus, crowned with glory and honour, because he let himself be put to death so that by the grace of God he might undergo death for all men.
• John 6:38 : 38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my pleasure, but the pleasure of him who sent me.
• Ps 40:6-8 : 6 You had no desire for offerings of beasts or fruits of the earth; ears you made for me: for burned offerings and sin offerings you made no request. 7 Then I said, See, I come; it is recorded of me in the roll of the book, 8 My delight is to do your pleasure, O my God; truly, your law is in my heart.
• Isa 53:10-12 : 10 And the Lord was pleased ... see a seed, long life, ... will do well in his hand. ... 11 ... made clear his righteousness before men ... had taken their sins on himself. 12 For this cause he will have a heritage with the great, and he will have a part in the goods of war with the strong, because he gave up his life, and was numbered with the evil-doers; taking on himself the sins of the people, and making prayer for the wrongdoers.
• Matt 26:53-56 : 53 Does it not seem possible to you that if I make request to my Father he will even now send me an army of angels? 54 But how then would the Writings come true, which say that so it has to be? 55 In that hour Jesus said to the people, Have you come out as against a thief with swords and sticks to take me? I was teaching every day in the Temple and you took me not. 56 But all this has taken place so that the writings of the prophets might come true. Then all his disciples went from him in flight.
• John 2:19-21 : 19 And Jesus said to them, Send destruction on this Temple and I will put it up again in three days. 20 The Jews said, The building of this Temple took forty-six years; and you will put it up in three days! 21 But his words were about that holy building which was his body.
• Heb 5:6-9 : 6 As he says in another place, You are a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. 7 Who in the days of his flesh, having sent up prayers and requests with strong crying and weeping to him who was able to give him salvation from death, had his prayer answered because of his fear of God. 8 And though he was a Son, through the pain which he underwent, the knowledge came to him of what it was to be under God's orders; 9 And when he had been made complete, he became the giver of eternal salvation to all those who are under his orders;
• Heb 10:6-9 : 6 You had no joy in burned offerings or in offerings for sin. 7 Then I said, See, I have come to do your pleasure, O God (as it is said of me in the roll of the book). 8 After saying, You had no desire for offerings, for burned offerings or offerings for sin (which are made by the law) and you had no pleasure in them, 9 Then he said, See, I have come to do your pleasure. He took away the old order, so that he might put the new order in its place. 10 By that pleasure we have been made holy, by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for ever.
• John 5:30 : 30 Of myself I am unable to do anything: as the voice comes to me so I give a decision: and my decision is right because I have no desire to do what is pleasing to myself, but only what is pleasing to him who sent me.
• John 10:11 : 11 I am the good keeper of sheep: the good keeper gives his life for the sheep.
• John 10:15 : 15 Even as the Father has knowledge of me and I of the Father; and I am giving my life for the sheep.
• Heb 2:14-15 : 14 And because the children are flesh and blood, he took a body himself and became like them; so that by his death he might put an end to him who had the power of death, that is to say, the Evil One; 15 And let those who all their lives were in chains because of their fear of death, go free.
• John 18:5-6 : 5 Their answer was, Jesus the Nazarene. Jesus said, I am he. And Judas, who was false to him, was there at their side. 6 And when he said to them, I am he, they went back, falling to the earth.
• John 19:11 : 11 Jesus gave this answer: You would have no power at all over me if it was not given to you by God; so that he who gave me up to you has the greater sin.
• Acts 2:24 : 24 But God gave him back to life, having made him free from the pains of death because it was not possible for him to be overcome by it.
• Acts 2:32 : 32 This Jesus God has given back to life, of which we all are witnesses.
• Acts 3:15 : 15 And put to death the Lord of life; whom God gave back from the dead; of which fact we are witnesses.
• Phil 2:6-8 : 6 To whom, though himself in the form of God, it did not seem that to take for oneself was to be like God; 7 But he made himself as nothing, taking the form of a servant, being made like men; 8 And being seen in form as a man, he took the lowest place, and let himself be put to death, even the death of the cross.
• Titus 2:14 : 14 Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works.