17 [a]Therefore doth my Father love me, because (A)[b]I lay down my life, that I might take it again.

18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself: I have power to lay it down, and have power to take it again: this (B)commandment have I received of my Father.

19 [c]Then there was a dissension again among the Jews for these sayings.

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Footnotes

  1. John 10:17 Christ is by the decree of the Father, the only true shepherd of the true Church, for he willingly gave his life for his sheep, and by his own power rose again to life.
  2. John 10:17 He speaketh in the time that now is because Christ’s whole life was as it were a perpetual death.
  3. John 10:19 The Gospel discovereth hypocrisy, and therefore the world must needs rage when it cometh forth.

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