John 10:18

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Summary

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.

Man

John 18:5

John 19:11

Matthew 26:53

But

This

Hebrews 10:6

Bible References

Man

"Jesus of Nazareth," was their answer. "I am he," said Jesus. (Judas, the betrayer, was also standing with them.)

"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."

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?

But

"Destroy this temple," was his answer, "and I will raise it in three days."

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.

The very Guide to Life you put to death! But God raised him from the dead--and of that we are ourselves witnesses.

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,

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.

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.

This

For I have come down from Heaven, to do, not my own will, but the will of him who sent me;

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.

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.

and on another occasion also-- 'Thou art a priest for all time of the order of Melchizedek.'

Thou dost take no pleasure in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.