John 10:15

Jesus compares His knowledge of His sheep to the mutual knowing between Him and the Father, and again says He lays down His life for them. His sacrifice flows from divine intimacy and love.

Cross-references · 24

• Gal 1:4who gave Himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
• John 10:11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.
• Matt 11:27All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.
• 1 Jn 2:2He Himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.
• Isa 53:10Yet it was the LORD’s will to crush Him and to cause Him to suffer; and when His soul is made a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, and the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.
• 1 Pet 3:18For 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,
• Zech 13:7Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd, against the man who is My Companion, declares the LORD of Hosts. Strike the Shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered, and I will turn My hand against the little ones.
• John 15:13Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
• 1 Tim 2:5–6For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
• Matt 20:28just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
• John 10:17–18The reason the Father loves Me is that I lay down My life in order to take it up again.
• 1 Pet 2:24He 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.”
• Eph 5:2and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
• Isa 53:8By oppression and judgment He was taken away, and who can recount His descendants? For He was cut off from the land of the living; He was stricken for the transgression of My people.
• John 8:55You do not know Him, but I know Him. If I said I did not know Him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know Him, and I keep His word.
• Isa 53:4–6Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.
• Dan 9:26Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. Then the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations have been decreed.
• John 17:25Righteous Father, although the world has not known You, I know You, and they know that You sent Me.
• Luke 10:21At that time Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your sight.
• John 6:46not that anyone has seen the Father except the One who is from God; only He has seen the Father.
• John 1:18No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.
• Titus 2:14He 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.
• Gal 3:13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”
• Rev 5:2–9And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming in a loud voice, “Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?”

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