John 10:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• John 10:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  I lay down my life - I give myself to die for my people, in Jewish and pagan lands. I offer myself a sacrifice to show the willingness of my Father to save them; to provide an atonement, and thus...

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• John 10:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  (5) Therefore doth my Father love me, because (g) I lay down my life, that I might take it again. (5) Christ is by the decree of the Father the only true shepherd of the true Church, for he willingl...

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• John 10:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  John 10. The Close of the Ministry in Jerusalem. [85] John 10:1-21 . The Good Shepherd. The first part of this chapter records Jesus-' teaching on true and false leadership. In John 10:1-5 we...

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• John 10:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Therefore . On account of (Greek. dia. App-104. John 10:2 ; John 10:2 ) this. My Father. See note on John 2:16 . love . Greek agapao. App-135. See note on John 3:16 .

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• John 10:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  17. On this account the Father loveth me. There is, indeed, another and a higher reason why the Father loveth the Son; for it was not in vain that a voice was heard from heaven, This...

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• John 10:17 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1664 VOLUNTARINESS OF CHRIST’S UNDERTAKING John 10:17-18 . Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I la...

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• John 10:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. Therefore doth my Father love me - As I shall be shortly crucified by you, do not imagine that I am abandoned...

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• John 10:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Therefore doth my Father love me,— "Nothing can shew the great regard I have for the salvation of mankind in a stronger light, than my laying down my life to promote and secure it; and this is so c...

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• John 10:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. Therefore, х Dia ( G1223 ) touto ( G5124 ), 'For this cause'] doth my Father love me, becaus...

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• John 10:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Good Shepherd. The Feast of the Dedication 1-18. Allegories of the Fold and of the Good Shepherd. This chapter continues Christ's discourse to His Pharisaic disciples begun at John 9:39 . His...

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• John 10:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  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 Fathe...

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• John 10:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 21 JESUS THE GOOD SHEPHERD. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that entereth not by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber....

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• John 10:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Jesus the Good Shepherd John 10:7-18 He who came in by the door which John the Baptist opened has become the door. It stands open to all comers- if any man. The salvation here mentioned refer...

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• John 10:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Continuing, He gave a more detailed picture of that coming order. There was to be a fold, with a door. There was to be a flock, with a shepherd. Entrance to the fold would be by the door. The flock w...

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• John 10:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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

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• John 10:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Therefore doth my Father love me ,.... Christ was the object of his Father's love from all eternity, and was loved by him on various accounts; first and chiefly, as his own Son, of the same nature w...

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• John 10:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. Ver. 17. Therefore doth my Father love me, because ] This "because" is nota consecutionis, non causae,...

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• John 10:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And other sheep have I Whom I foreknow as repenting and believing in me; which are not of this fold Not of the Jewish Church or nation, but Gentiles. Some, indeed, understand by these the Jews li...

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• John 10:17 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  THE SHEEPFOLD AND THE SHEPHERD (vs.1-18) Now the Lord speaks in parabolic form, again in verse 1 doubly pressing the truth of His words. One climbing the fence of the sheepfold (rather then enter...

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• John 10:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Good Shepherd.       1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some othe...

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• John 10:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Christ here asserts two things. 1. That he was about to lay down his life, and should now very shortly lay it down; but yet so as he should take it again; that is, rise again from the dead; death s...

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• John 10:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Good Shepherd and the False Shepherds ( John 10:1-18 ). The way that the parable opens emphasises the fact that the parable is as much about the false shepherds as it is about the true. It is...

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• John 10:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES John 10:1-21 contain a discourse on false and true leaders and teachers in reference to Christ, under the allegoric parable of the fold and the good shepherd. The...

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• John 10:17 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  John 10:17-18 Christ Comforting Himself I. These words, although spoken, it would seem, to an audience, read like a soliloquy. Jesus Christ, we may say, is here heard comforting Himself, comforti...

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• John 10:17 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  John 10:1-2 . Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he that entereth in by the d...

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• John 10:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  John 10:1 . He that entereth not by the door is a thief and a robber. After the scribes had formed a plot against the life of the good shepherd, he told them that they were not the children of Abr...

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• John 10:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION John 10:1-43 5. Christ the Shepherd of the flock of God . The discourse which now follows was the Lord's parabolic or allegoric reply to the conduct of the Pharisaic malign...

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• John 10:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Therefore doth My Father love Me, because I lay down My life, that I might take it again.

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• John 10:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Hebrews 2:9 ; Isaiah 42:1 ; Isaiah 42:21 ; Isaiah 53:7-12 ; John 15:10 ; John 15:9 ; John 17:24-26 ; John 17:4 ; John 17:5 ; John 3:25

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• John 10:17 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Door of the Sheepfold John 10:1-18 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Let us consider the all-inclusiveness, and the all-exclusive-ness of Christ, as introductory to our theme. First of all Christ said: "...

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• John 10:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  I lay down my life that I may take it again — I cheerfully die to expiate the sins of men, to the end I may rise again for their justification.

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