John 10:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.

John 10:17 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 10:18
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.
John 10:11
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
John 10:15
As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
Hebrews 2:9
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
John 15:9-10
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. …

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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 thi…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

15-18. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father--What claim to absolute equality with the Father could exceed this? (See on Mt 11:27). and I lay down my life for the sheep--How sublime this, immediately following the lofty claim of the preceding clause! 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 d…