John 10:18

New English Translation

No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This commandment I received from my Father.”

Cross References

John 10:11

“I am the good shepherd. The 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 lay down my life for the sheep.

John 10:17

This is why the Father loves me – because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again.

John 14:31

but I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here.”

John 15:10

If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.

John 19:11

Jesus replied, “You would have no authority over me at all, unless it was given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of greater sin.”

John 5:26

For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself,

John 5:30

I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.

John 6:38

For I have come 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, having released him from the pains of death, because it was not possible for him to be held in its power.

Acts 2:32

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

Acts 3:15

You killed the Originator of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this fact we are witnesses!

Titus 2:14

He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.

Hebrews 2:9

but we 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 God’s grace he would experience death on behalf of everyone.