John 10:18

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No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have the authority to lay it down and the authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.

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  • John 10:17 : 17 The Father loves me because I lay down my life so that I may take it up again.
  • John 14:31 : 31 But so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded me. Rise, let us go from here.
  • John 15:10 : 10 If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.
  • Heb 2:9 : 9 But we do see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.
  • John 6:38 : 38 'For I have come down from heaven not to do my will, but the will of him who sent me.'
  • Ps 40:6-8 : 6 You, LORD my God, have done many wonderful works, and Your plans are beyond comparison. If I tried to declare and speak of them, they are too numerous to count. 7 Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but You have prepared my ears to listen; burnt offering and sin offering You did not require. 8 Then I said, 'Here I am; I have come. In the scroll of the book it is written about me.'
  • Isa 53:10-12 : 10 Yet it was the Lord's will to crush him and cause him to suffer. When you make his life an offering for sin, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand. 11 After his suffering, he will see the result and be satisfied. By his knowledge, my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore I will give him a portion among the great, and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life unto death and was numbered with the transgressors. He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.
  • Matt 26:53-56 : 53 Do you not think I can call on My Father, and He will at once put at My disposal more than twelve legions of angels? 54 But how then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen in this way? 55 At that time, Jesus said to the crowd, "Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest Me as if I were a robber? Every day I sat teaching in the temple courts, and you did not arrest Me. 56 But all this has taken place so that the writings of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples deserted Him and fled.
  • John 2:19-21 : 19 Jesus answered them, 'Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.' 20 They replied, 'It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and You are going to raise it in three days?' 21 But He was speaking about the temple of His body.
  • Heb 5:6-9 : 6 As He also says in another place, 'You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.' 7 During His earthly life, He offered prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverent submission. 8 Although He was a Son, He learned obedience through what He suffered. 9 And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him.
  • Heb 10:6-9 : 6 You were not pleased with whole burnt offerings and offerings for sin. 7 Then I said, 'Behold, I have come—it is written about Me in the scroll of the book—to do Your will, O God.'" 8 After saying above that sacrifices, offerings, whole burnt offerings, and offerings for sins You did not desire nor were pleased with—which are offered according to the law— 9 then He said, 'Behold, I have come to do Your will.' He takes away the first to establish the second. 10 And by that will, we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
  • John 5:30 : 30 I can do nothing on My own. As I hear, I judge, and My judgment is just because I do not seek My own will but the will of Him who sent Me.
  • John 10:11 : 11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
  • John 10:15 : 15 Just as the Father knows me and I know the Father, I lay down my life for the sheep.
  • Heb 2:14-15 : 14 Since the children share in flesh and blood, He too likewise partook of the same, so that through death He might destroy the one who has the power of death—that is, the devil. 15 and might free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.
  • John 18:5-6 : 5 They answered him, 'Jesus the Nazarene.' Jesus said to them, 'I am he.' Judas, the one who betrayed him, was standing with them. 6 When Jesus said to them, 'I am he,' they stepped back and fell to the ground.
  • John 19:11 : 11 Jesus answered, "You would have no authority over me unless it had been given to you from above. Therefore, the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.
  • Acts 2:24 : 24 But God raised Him from the dead, freeing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on Him.
  • Acts 2:32 : 32 This Jesus God has raised up, and we are all witnesses of it.
  • Acts 3:15 : 15 You killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. We are witnesses of this.
  • Phil 2:6-8 : 6 Who, being in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, 7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of humanity. And being found in appearance as a man, 8 He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death—even death on a cross.
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify a people for His own possession, who are eager to do good works.

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  • John 10:17
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    17The Father loves me because I lay down my life so that I may take it up again.

  • John 10:27-30
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    27My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.

    28I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand.

    29My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand.

    30I and the Father are one.

  • John 10:15
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    15Just as the Father knows me and I know the Father, I lay down my life for the sheep.

  • John 10:19
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    19Again, there was division among the Jews because of these words.

  • John 12:49-50
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    49For I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to speak.

    50I know that His command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told Me to say.

  • John 16:15
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    15Everything that the Father has is mine. This is why I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.

  • John 10:11
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    11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

  • John 8:28
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    28So Jesus said to them, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he and that I do nothing on my own, but speak just as the Father taught me.

  • John 6:37-39
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    37'All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.'

    38'For I have come down from heaven not to do my will, but the will of him who sent me.'

    39'And this is the will of him who sent me: that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up on the last day.'

  • John 18:11
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    11But Jesus said to Peter, 'Put your sword back into its sheath! Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given me?'

  • John 14:31
    71%

    31But so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded me. Rise, let us go from here.

  • John 15:12-13
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    12This is my commandment: Love one another as I have loved you.

    13Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

  • John 17:6-8
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    6I have revealed Your name to the people You gave Me out of the world. They were Yours; You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word.

    7Now they know that everything You have given Me comes from You.

    8For I gave them the words You gave Me, and they received them. They knew with certainty that I came from You, and they believed that You sent Me.

  • John 16:27-28
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    27for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

    28I came from the Father and have come into the world. Again, I am leaving the world and going to the Father.

  • John 17:2
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    2Just as You gave Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all You have given Him.

  • John 5:30
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    30I can do nothing on My own. As I hear, I judge, and My judgment is just because I do not seek My own will but the will of Him who sent Me.

  • John 19:10-11
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  • John 8:20
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    20He spoke these words while teaching in the temple treasury. Yet no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come.

  • John 13:3
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    27Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your heart be troubled, and do not let it be afraid.

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  • Luke 10:22
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    22All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son, and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.

  • John 17:10
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    10All I have is Yours, and all You have is Mine. And I have been glorified in them.

  • John 10:39
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    39Once again they tried to seize him, but he escaped their grasp.

  • John 8:18
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    18I am the one who testifies about myself, and the Father who sent me also testifies about me.

  • John 5:26-27
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    26For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted the Son also to have life in Himself.

    27And He has given Him authority to execute judgment because He is the Son of Man.

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    19So Jesus answered them, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing by Himself; He only does what He sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does in the same way.'

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    36But I have testimony greater than John's: the works the Father has given Me to complete, the very works I am doing, testify about Me that the Father has sent Me.

  • John 14:10
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    10Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, the Father who dwells in me does his work.

  • John 10:36
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  • John 8:14
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    14Jesus answered, "Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you do not know where I come from or where I am going.

  • Matt 28:18
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    18Then Jesus came closer and spoke to them, saying, 'All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.'

  • Matt 26:55
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    55At that time, Jesus said to the crowd, "Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest Me as if I were a robber? Every day I sat teaching in the temple courts, and you did not arrest Me.