John 10:18

New American Bible - revised edition

No one takes it from me, but I lay it down on my own. I have power to lay it down, and power to take it up again. This command I have received from my Father.”

Cross References

John 10:11

I am the good shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

John 10:15

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

John 10:17

This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again.

John 14:31

but the world must know that I love the Father and that I do just as the Father has commanded me. Get up, let us go.

John 15:10

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.

John 19:11

Jesus answered [him], “You would have no power over me if it had not been given to you from above. For this reason the one who handed me over to you has the greater sin.”

John 5:26

For just as the Father has life in himself, so also he gave to his Son the possession of life in himself.

John 5:30

“I cannot do anything on my own; I judge as I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me. Witnesses to Jesus.

John 6:38

because I came down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

Acts 2:24

But God raised him up, releasing him from the throes of death, because it was impossible for him to be held by it.

Acts 2:32

God raised this Jesus; of this we are all witnesses.

Acts 3:15

The author of life you put to death, but God raised him from the dead; of this we are witnesses.

Titus 2:14

who gave himself for us to deliver us from all lawlessness and to cleanse for himself a people as his own, eager to do what is good.

Hebrews 2:9

but we do see Jesus “crowned with glory and honor” because he suffered death, he who “for a little while” was made “lower than the angels,” that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.