“I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.
John 10:18 - Tree of Life Version No one takes it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it up again. This command I received from My Father.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition No one takes it away from Me. On the contrary, I lay it down voluntarily. [I put it from Myself.] I am authorized and have power to lay it down (to resign it) and I am authorized and have power to take it back again. These are the instructions (orders) which I have received [as My charge] from My Father. American Standard Version (1901) No one taketh it away from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment received I from my Father. Common English Bible No one takes it from me, but I give it up because I want to. I have the right to give it up, and I have the right to take it up again. I received this commandment from my Father.” 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." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version No man taketh it away from me: but I lay it down of myself, and I have power to lay it down: and I have power to take it up again. This commandment have I received of my Father. |
“I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.
just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.
“For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life, so that I may take it up again.
But in order that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded Me. “Get up, let’s go from here!”
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.
Yeshua answered, “You would have no authority over Me if it hadn’t been given to you from above. For this reason, the one who handed Me over to you has the greater sin.”
For just as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted the Son to have life in Himself.
I can do nothing on My own. Just as I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, for I do not seek My own will, but the will of the One who sent Me.”
For I have come down from heaven not to do My own will but the will of the One who sent Me.
But God raised Him up, releasing Him from the pains of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held by it.
You killed the Author of life—the One God raised from the dead! We are witnesses of it.
He gave Himself for us so that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and so that He might purify for Himself a chosen people, zealous for good deeds.
But we see One who was made for a little while lower than the angels—namely, Yeshua. He is now crowned with glory and honor, because of the death He suffered so that, by the grace of God, He might taste death for everyone.