31But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
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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.
And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!
For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 28-31)Christ here gives his disciples another reason why their hearts should not be troubled for his going away; and that is, because his heart was not. And here he tells them what it was that enabled him to endure the cross and despise the shame, that they might look unto him , and run with patience . He comforted himself, I. That, though he went away, he should come again: “You have heard how I have s…
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