John 10:18

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again.

John 14:31

but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us be on our way.

John 15:10

If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.

John 19:11

Jesus answered him, “You would have no power over me unless it had been given you from above; therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”

John 5:26

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

John 5:30

“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just because I seek to do not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

John 6:38

for I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.

Acts 2:24

But God raised him up, having released him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for him to be held in its power.

Acts 2:32

“This Jesus God raised up, and of that all of us are witnesses.

Acts 3:15

and you killed the author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.

Titus 2:14

He it is who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.

Hebrews 2:9

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