John 10:18
Good News Translation
No one takes my life away from me. I give it up of my own free will. I have the right to give it up, and I have the right to take it back. This is what my Father has commanded me to do."

New Revised Standard Version
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.”

Contemporary English Version
No one takes my life from me. I give it up willingly! I have the power to give it up and the power to receive it back again, just as my Father commanded me to do.

New American Bible
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.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

man.

John 18:5,6 They answered him: Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith to them: I am he. And Judas also, who betrayed him, stood with them. . . .

John 19:11 Jesus answered: Thou shouldst not have any power against me, unless it were given thee from above. Therefore, he that hath delivered me to thee hath the greater sin.

Matthew 26:53-56 Thinkest thou that I cannot ask my Father, and he will give me presently more than twelve legions of angels? . . .

but.

John 2:19-21 Jesus answered and said to them: Destroy this temple; and in three days I will raise it up. . . .

Isaiah 53:10-12 And the Lord was pleased to bruise him in infirmity: if he shall lay down his life for sin, he shall see a longlived seed, and the will of the Lord shall be prosperous in his hand. . . .

Acts 2:24,32 Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the sorrows of hell, as it was impossible that he should be holden by it. . . .

Acts 3:15 But the author of life you killed, whom God hath raised from the dead: of which we are witnesses.

Philippians 2:6-8 Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: . . .

Titus 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and might cleanse to himself a people acceptable, a pursuer of good works.

Hebrews 2:9,14,15 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour: that, through the grace of God he might taste death for all. . . .

This.

John 6:38 Because I came down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him that sent me.

John 14:31 But that the world may know that I love the Father: and as the Father hath given me commandments, so do I. Arise, let us go hence.

John 15:10 If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love: as I also have kept my Father's commandments and do abide in his love.

Psalm 40:6-8 Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire; but thou hast pierced ears for me. Burnt offering and sin offering thou didst not require: . . .

Hebrews 5:6-9 As he saith also in another place: Thou art a priest for ever, according to the order of Melchisedech. . . .

Hebrews 10:6-10 Holocausts for sin did not please thee. . . .

Context
Jesus the Good Shepherd
17Therefore doth the Father love me: because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. 18No 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. 19A dissension rose again among the Jews for these words.…
Cross References
Matthew 26:53
Thinkest thou that I cannot ask my Father, and he will give me presently more than twelve legions of angels?

John 2:19
Jesus answered and said to them: Destroy this temple; and in three days I will raise it up.

John 5:26
For as the Father hath life in himself, so he hath given to the Son also to have life in himself.

John 10:11
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep.

John 10:15
As the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father: and I lay down my life for my sheep.

John 14:31
But that the world may know that I love the Father: and as the Father hath given me commandments, so do I. Arise, let us go hence.

John 15:10
If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love: as I also have kept my Father's commandments and do abide in his love.

Philippians 2:8
He humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, even to the death of the cross.

Hebrews 5:8
And whereas indeed he was the Son of God, he learned obedience by the things which he suffered.

John 10:17
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