Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to take it up again. New Living Translation “The Father loves me because I sacrifice my life so I may take it back again. English Standard Version For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again. Berean Standard Bible The reason the Father loves Me is that I lay down My life in order to take it up again. Berean Literal Bible Because of this, the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life, that I might take it again. King James Bible Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. New King James Version “Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again. New American Standard Bible For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it back. NASB 1995 “For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again. NASB 1977 “For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again. Legacy Standard Bible For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again. Amplified Bible For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My [own] life so that I may take it back. Christian Standard Bible This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life so that I may take it up again. Holman Christian Standard Bible This is why the Father loves Me, because I am laying down My life so I may take it up again. American Standard Version Therefore doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. Aramaic Bible in Plain English “Because of this my Father delights in me, because I am laying down my life that I may receive it again.” Contemporary English Version The Father loves me, because I give up my life, so I may receive it back again. Douay-Rheims Bible Therefore doth the Father love me: because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. English Revised Version Therefore doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. GOD'S WORD® Translation The Father loves me because I give my life in order to take it back again. Good News Translation "The Father loves me because I am willing to give up my life, in order that I may receive it back again. International Standard Version This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it back again. Literal Standard Version Because of this the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life, that again I may take it; Majority Standard Bible The reason My Father loves Me is that I lay down My life in order to take it up again. New American Bible This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again. NET Bible This is why the Father loves me--because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again. New Revised Standard Version For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again. New Heart English Bible Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. Webster's Bible Translation Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. Weymouth New Testament For this reason my Father loves me, because I am laying down my life in order to receive it back again. World English Bible Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. Young's Literal Translation 'Because of this doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that again I may take it; Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Jesus the Good Shepherd…16I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them in as well, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock and one shepherd. 17The reason the Father loves Me is that I lay down My life in order to take it up again. 18No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from My Father.”… Cross References John 10:11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. John 10:15 just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep. Hebrews 1:9 You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You above Your companions with the oil of joy." Treasury of Scripture Therefore does my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. John 3:25 Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying. John 15:9,10 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love… John 17:4,5,24-26 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do… Jump to Previous Account Love Loves Order Reason ReceiveJump to Next Account Love Loves Order Reason ReceiveJohn 10 1. Jesus is the door, and the good shepherd.19. Diverse opinions of him. 23. He proves by his works that he is Jesus the Son of God; 31. escapes the Jews; 39. and goes again beyond Jordan, where many believe on him. (17) Therefore doth my Father love me . . . For the meaning of this difficult verse, comp. Notes on John 5:17 et seq., and on Philippians 2:8-9. The thought is that in the relation between the Father and the human nature of Christ, the reason of the Father's love is based upon the self-devotion of the Son. He who so loved the world that he gave His only-begotten Son to die for it, loves the Son who of His own will gives Himself to die. It is, if we might presume so to speak, as though the salvation of mankind had called forth a new relation of love between the Father and the Son. That I might take it again.--This is given as part of the reason of the Father's love; and the words admit of no other construction. At first sight they seem to us paradoxical, beyond and against common feeling. In acts of sacrifice, the fact that that which is lost will be certainly regained, seems to us to take away all value from the act; but here the fact that Christ will lay down His life, is stated to be in order that He may take it again; and this is the foundation of the Father's love! The key to the meaning is in the truth that for Christ the taking again of human life is itself a further sacrifice, and that this is necessary for the completion of the Great Shepherd's work. The scattered sheep during the whole of the world's existence are to be gathered in by Him whose continued union with human nature makes Him at once the Shepherd who gives His life for the sheep, and the Door by whom we ever have access to the Father. Verse 17. - Therefore doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. The διὰ τοῦτο points to the whole of the previous statement, and ὅτι to a more complete exposition of the precise point in it on which the Divine Father's love (ἀγαπή) rests. The "I" and "me" refer to the incarnate Son, i.e. to the Divine-human Personality of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Father loveth me, because, not merely that I lay down my life, for such might be the consequence of helplessness in the presence of victorious and desperate foes. The love which merely "laid down life" would be a Buddha-like self-sacrifice, producing certain moral effects upon the minds of the onlookers, and revealing a large and loving sense of the need of others. Yet in such expression of his sacrificial love he would have relinquished his undertaking. There would have been no more that he could do for his flock, this Shepherd-functions would, in the consummating act, cease, he would be a beautiful Memory, not a living Energy; a glorious Example, not the Author of eternal salvation. He would cease to be the great Shepherd of the sheep. Now the Father's love contemplated more than this, viz. the Lord's own purpose to take up again that life which he was prepared voluntarily to lay down for the sheep. Thus he would indeed die, that he might be more of a Shepherd to them than he had ever been before. How otherwise would he personally bring the other sheep into his flock, or be known of them, as the Father was known by him? Christ declares that after his death he would still exercise royal rights, be as much a Divine-human Personality as ever. Christ, as a sinless Man, the sinless One, might indeed, after the victory over the tempter in the wilderness, or from the Mount of Transfiguration, have returned to the spiritual world without accomplishing an exodus on Golgotha, but he chose, he willed, to lay down his life. Having done this much, he might have joined the great majority, and been their Head and Chief, and left his work to be commented on by others. But such a consummation would have fallen far short of the true and sufficing object of the Father's love. Christ declares that the very end of his death was his resurrection from death. In retaking his life, he is able to continue, on perfectly different terms, the shepherding of his people he becomes in the highest sense, the great Shepherd, the good Shepherd, the archetypal, and the veritable Shepherd of the flock of God.Parallel Commentaries ... Greek The reasonΔιὰ (Dia) Preposition Strong's 1223: A primary preposition denoting the channel of an act; through. the ὁ (ho) Article - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. Father Πατὴρ (Patēr) Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 3962: Father, (Heavenly) Father, ancestor, elder, senior. Apparently a primary word; a 'father'. loves ἀγαπᾷ (agapa) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 25: To love, wish well to, take pleasure in, long for; denotes the love of reason, esteem. Perhaps from agan; to love. Me με (me) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 1st Person Singular Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I. [is] that ὅτι (hoti) Conjunction Strong's 3754: Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because. I ἐγὼ (egō) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 1st Person Singular Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I. lay down τίθημι (tithēmi) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 1st Person Singular Strong's 5087: To put, place, lay, set, fix, establish. A prolonged form of a primary theo to place. My μου (mou) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive 1st Person Singular Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I. life ψυχήν (psychēn) Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular Strong's 5590: From psucho; breath, i.e. spirit, abstractly or concretely. in order ἵνα (hina) Conjunction Strong's 2443: In order that, so that. Probably from the same as the former part of heautou; in order that. to take it up λάβω (labō) Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Active - 1st Person Singular Strong's 2983: (a) I receive, get, (b) I take, lay hold of. again. πάλιν (palin) Adverb Strong's 3825: Probably from the same as pale; anew, i.e. back, once more, or furthermore or on the other hand. Links John 10:17 NIVJohn 10:17 NLT John 10:17 ESV John 10:17 NASB John 10:17 KJV John 10:17 BibleApps.com John 10:17 Biblia Paralela John 10:17 Chinese Bible John 10:17 French Bible John 10:17 Catholic Bible NT Gospels: John 10:17 Therefore the Father loves me because (Jhn Jo Jn) |
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