John 10:15 BSB — MannaFest

John 10:15

just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

even as the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.

KJV

As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

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Commentary

6 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

As the Father knoweth me ... - See the Mat 11:27 note; also Luk 10:22 note. I lay down my life for the sheep - That is, I give my life as an atoning sacrifice for their sins. I die in their place, to redeem them from sin, and danger, and death. See Joh 10:17-18.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

As the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father - With such a knowledge as implies an inexpressible union: and I lay down my life - Speaking of the present time. For his whole life was only a going unto death.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Sheep appointed for the slaughter, ready to be sacrificed, were ransomed with the blood of the shepherd. He laid down his life, hyper ton probaton , not only for the good of the sheep, but in their stead. Thousands of sheep had been offered in sacrifice for their shepherds, as sin-offerings, but here, by a surprising reverse, the shepherd is sacrificed for the sheep.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The covenant of grace, which is the bond of this relation, is founded in the covenant of redemption between the Father and the Son, which, we may be sure, stands firm; for the Father and the Son understood one another perfectly well in that matter, and there could be no mistake, which might leave the matter at any uncertainty, or bring it into any hazard.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 1877: “Our Own Dear Shepherd” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1886)

As the passage stands in the Authorized Version, it reads like a number of short sentences with scarcely any apparent connection. Even in that form it is precious, for our Lord's pearls are priceless even when they are not threaded together. But when I tell you that in the Greek the word, "and," is repeated several times and that the translators have had to leave out one of these, "ands," to make sense of the passage on their line of translation, you will judge that they are none too accurate in this case.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καθὼς	kathōs	Even as	G2531 →
γινώσκει	ginōskei	knows	G1097 →
με	me	Me	G3165 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
πατὴρ	patēr	Father	G3962 →
κἀγὼ	kagō	I myself also	G1473 →G2532 →
γινώσκω	ginōskō	know	G1097 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
πατέρα,	patera	Father,	G3962 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
ψυχήν	psuchēn	life	G5590 →
μου	mou	of Mine	G3165 →
τίθημι	tithēmi	I lay down	G5087 →
ὑπὲρ	huper	for	G5228 →
τῶν	tōn	the	G3588 →
προβάτων.	probatōn	sheep.	G4263 →

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
John 10:11
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.
leads to
- Psalms 23:1
  The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
- John 10:14–15
  I am the good shepherd. I know My sheep and My sheep know Me,
- John 15:13
  Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
- Revelation 7:17
  For the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd. ‘He will lead them to springs of living water,’ and ‘God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”
- Isaiah 40:11
  He tends His flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart. He gently leads the nursing ewes.
Through
1 Peter 3:18
For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 5:21
  God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Hebrews 9:28
  so also Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await Him.
Through
1 John 2:2
He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
leads to
- 1 Peter 2:24
  He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.