John 10:18
No one took it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to receive it again. This is the command which I received from my Father."
John 15:10
If you lay my commands to heart, you will remain in my love; just as I have laid the Father's commands to heart and remain in his love.
John 14:31
But he is coming that the world may see that I love the Father, and that I do as the Father commanded me. Come, let us be going.
John 10:17
This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life- -to receive it again.
Hebrews 2:9
What our eyes do see is Jesus, who was made for a while lower than angels, now, because of his sufferings and death, crowned with glory and honour; so that his tasting the bitterness of death should, in God's loving-kindness, be on behalf of all mankind.
Matthew 26:53-56
Do you think that I cannot ask my Father for help, when he would at once send to my aid more than twelve legions of angels?
John 2:19-21
"Destroy this temple," was his answer, "and I will raise it in three days."
John 5:30
I can do nothing of myself; I judge as I am taught; and the judgment that I give is just, because my aim is not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me.
John 6:38
For I have come down from Heaven, to do, not my own will, but the will of him who sent me;
John 10:11
I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd lays down his life for his 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 18:5-6
"Jesus of Nazareth," was their answer. "I am he," said Jesus. (Judas, the betrayer, was also standing with them.)
John 19:11
"You would have no power over me at all," answered Jesus, "if it had not been given you from above; and, therefore, the man who betrayed me to you is guilty of the greater sin."
Acts 2:24
But God released him from the pangs of death and raised him to life, it being impossible for death to retain its hold upon him.
Acts 2:32
It was this Jesus, whom God raised to life; and of that we are ourselves all witnesses.
Acts 3:15
The very Guide to Life you put to death! But God raised him from the dead--and of that we are ourselves witnesses.
Philippians 2:6-8
Though the divine nature was his from the beginning, yet he did not look upon equality with God as above all things to be clung to,
Titus 2:14
For he gave himself on our behalf, to deliver us from all wickedness, and to purify for himself a People who should be peculiarly his own and eager to do good.
Hebrews 2:14-15
Therefore, since human nature is the common heritage of 'the Children,' Jesus also shared it, in order that by death he might render powerless him whose power lies in death--that is, the Devil--
Hebrews 5:6-9
and on another occasion also-- 'Thou art a priest for all time of the order of Melchizedek.'
Hebrews 10:6-10
Thou dost take no pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.