John 10:17-19

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¹⁷ “That’s why the father loves me, because I lay down my life, so that I can take it again. ¹⁸ Nobody takes it from me; I lay it down of my own accord. I have the right to lay it down, and I have the right to receive it back again. This is the command I received from my father.”

The Messiah and the father

¹⁹ So there was again a division among the Judaeans because of what Jesus had said.