15As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
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Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-18)It is not certain whether this discourse was at the feast of dedication in the winter (spoken of John 10:22), which may be taken as the date, not only of what follows, but of what goes before (that which countenances this is, that Christ, in his discourse there, carries on the metaphor of the sheep, John 10:26 , 27 , whence it seems that that discourse and this were at the same time); or whether t…
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