John 10:18

New International Reader's Version

No one takes it from me. I give it up myself. I have the authority to give it up. And I have the authority to take it back again. I received this command from my Father.”

Cross References

John 10:11

“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives his life for the sheep.

John 10:15

They know me just as the Father knows me and I know the Father. And I give my life for the sheep.

John 10:17

The reason my Father loves me is that I give up my life. But I will take it back again.

John 14:31

But he comes so that the world may learn that I love the Father. They must also learn that I do exactly what my Father has commanded me to do. “Come now. Let us leave.

John 15:10

If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love. In the same way, I have obeyed my Father’s commands and remain in his love.

John 19:11

Jesus answered, “You were given power from heaven. If you weren’t, you would have no power over me. So the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”

John 5:26

The Father has life in himself. He has allowed the Son also to have life in himself.

John 5:30

I can do nothing by myself. I judge only as I hear. And my judging is fair. I do not try to please myself. I try to please the one who sent me.

John 6:38

I have not come down from heaven to do what I want to do. I have come to do what the one who sent me wants me to do.

Acts 2:24

But God raised him from the dead. He set him free from the suffering of death. It wasn’t possible for death to keep its hold on Jesus.

Acts 2:32

God has raised this same Jesus back to life. We are all witnesses of this.

Acts 3:15

You killed the one who gives life. But God raised him from the dead. We are witnesses of this.

Titus 2:14

He gave himself for us. By doing that, he set us free from all evil. He wanted to make us pure. He wanted us to be his very own people. He wanted us to desire to do what is good.

Hebrews 2:9

But we do see Jesus already given a crown of glory and honor. He was made lower than the angels for a little while. He suffered death. By the grace of God, he tasted death for everyone. That is why he was given his crown.