John 10:18

Catholic Public Domain Version

No one takes it away from me. Instead, I lay it down of my own accord. And I have the power to lay it down. And I have the power to take it up again. This is the commandment that I have received from my Father."

Cross References

John 10:11

I am the good Shepherd. The good Shepherd gives his life for his sheep.

John 10:15

just as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for my sheep.

John 10:17

For this reason, the Father loves me: because I lay down my life, so that I may take it up again.

John 14:31

Yet this is so that the world may know that I love the Father, and that I am acting according to the commandment that the Father has given to me. Rise up, let us go from here."

John 15:10

If you keep my precepts, you shall abide in my love, just as I also have kept my Father's precepts and I abide in his love.

John 19:11

Jesus responded, "You would not have any authority over me, unless it were given to you from above. For this reason, he who has handed me over to you has the greater sin."

John 5:26

For just as the Father has life in himself, so also has he granted to the Son to have life in himself.

John 5:30

I am not able to do anything of myself. As I hear, so do I judge. And my judgment is just. For I do not seek my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

John 6:38

For I descended from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

Acts 2:24

And he whom God has raised up has broken the sorrows of Hell, for certainly it was impossible for him to be held by it.

Acts 2:32

This Jesus, God raised up again, and of this we are all witnesses.

Acts 3:15

Truly, it was the Author of Life whom you put to death, whom God raised from the dead, to whom we are witnesses.

Titus 2:14

He gave himself for our sake, so that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and might cleanse for himself an acceptable people, pursuers of good works.

Hebrews 2:9

Yet we understand that Jesus, who was reduced to a little less than the Angels, was crowned with glory and honor because of his Passion and death, in order that, by the grace of God, he might taste death for all.