John 10:18 BSB — MannaFest

John 10:18

No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from My Father.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

No one taketh it away 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 received I from my Father.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

3 voices

Athanasius of Alexandria

296–373

Discourses Against the Arians 3.29.57 (373)

To be troubled was proper to the flesh, and to have power to lay down his life and take it again when he wanted was no property of people but of the Word's power. For human beings die not by their own power but by necessity of nature and against their will. But the Lord, being himself immortal but having mortal flesh, had power as God to become separate from the body and to take it again when he wanted to.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

He chiefly spoke of the Father, before his suffering: of his own glory, after it. Our Lord's receiving this commission as mediator is not to be considered as the ground of his power to lay down and resume his life. For this he had in himself, as having an original right to dispose thereof, antecedent to the Father's commission.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Here lay the glory of His sacrifice, that it was purely voluntary. The claim of "power to take it again" is no less important, as showing that His resurrection, though ascribed to the Father, in the sense we shall presently see, was nevertheless His own assertion of His own right to life as soon as the purposes of His voluntary death were accomplished.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

It is the riches and the poverty of "the Word made flesh"--one glorious Person reaching at once up to the Throne and down even to the dust of death, "that we might live through Him." A candid interpretation of the words, "for the sheep," ought to go far to establish the special relation of the vicarious death of Christ to the Church.

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Original language & word study

29 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
οὐδεὶς	oudeis	No [one]	G3762 →
αἴρει	airei	takes away	G142 →
αὐτὴν	autēn	it	G846 →
ἀπ᾽	ap᾽	from	G575 →
ἐμοῦ,	emou	Me,	G1473 →
ἀλλ᾽	all᾽	but	G235 →
ἐγὼ	egō	I myself	G1473 →
τίθημι	tithēmi	lay down	G5087 →
αὐτὴν	autēn	it	G846 →
ἀπ᾽	ap᾽	of	G575 →
ἐμαυτοῦ.	emautou	Myself.	G1473 →
ἐξουσίαν	exousian	Authority	G1849 →
ἔχω	echō	I have	G2192 →
θεῖναι	theinai	to lay down	G5087 →
αὐτὴν	autēn	it	G846 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἐξουσίαν	exousian	authority	G1849 →
ἔχω	echō	I have	G2192 →
πάλιν	palin	again	G3825 →
λαβεῖν	labein	to take	G2983 →
αὐτήν·	autēn	it;	G846 →
ταύτην	tautēn	This	G3778 →
τὴν	tēn	<the>	G3588 →
ἐντολὴν	entolēn	commandment	G1785 →
ἔλαβον	elabon	I received	G2983 →
παρὰ	para	from	G3844 →
τοῦ	tou	the	G3588 →
πατρός	patros	Father	G3962 →
μου.¶	mou	of Mine.	G3165 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Titus 2:14
He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
leads to
- Revelation 5:9
  And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Hebrews 9:14
  how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself unblemished to God, purify our consciences from works of death, so that we may serve the living God!
- Ephesians 2:10
  For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
- 1 Peter 2:9
  But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
- 1 Peter 1:18
  For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,
Through
Hebrews 2:9
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death, so that by the grace of God He might taste death…
leads to
- Philippians 2:7–9
  but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in human likeness.
- Romans 5:18
  So then, just as one trespass brought condemnation for all men, so also one act of righteousness brought justification and life for all men.
- 1 John 4:9–10
  This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him.