John 10:18

Jesus insists that no one takes His life from Him; He lays it down freely and has authority to take it up again, by the Father's command. His death is a sovereign, voluntary act of obedience.

Cross-references · 22

• 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.
• Heb 2:9But 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 for everyone.
• John 10:17The reason the Father loves Me is that I lay down My life in order to take it up again.
• John 2:19–21Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”
• John 14:31But I do exactly what the Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up! Let us go on from here.
• Heb 5:6–9And in another passage God says: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”
• John 6:38For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but to do the will of Him who sent Me.
• Isa 53:10–12Yet 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.
• Heb 10:6–10In burnt offerings and sin offerings You took no delight.
• Phil 2:6–8Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
• John 15:10If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love.
• Ps 40:6–8Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require.
• Matt 26:53–56Are you not aware that I can call on My Father, and He will at once put at My disposal more than twelve legions of angels?
• John 10:11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.
• John 5:30I can do nothing by Myself; I judge only as I hear. And My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
• Acts 2:24But God raised Him from the dead, releasing Him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for Him to be held in its clutches.
• Acts 3:15You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses of the fact.
• Acts 2:32God has raised this Jesus to life, to which we are all witnesses.
• John 19:11Jesus answered, “You would have no authority over Me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed Me over to you is guilty of greater sin.”
• Heb 2:14–15Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil,
• John 18:5–6“Jesus of Nazareth,” they answered. Jesus said, “I am He.” And Judas His betrayer was standing there with them.
• John 10:15just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.

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