Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John 10:17
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.
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.
Verse John 10:17. _THEREFORE DOTH MY FATHER LOVE ME_] As I shall be shortly crucified by you, do not imagine that I am abandoned by my heavenly Father, and therefore fall thus into your hands. The _F...
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 to o...
CHAPTER 10 _ 1. The Shepherd of the Sheep. (John 10:1 .)_ 2. The Good Shepherd, His Sheep and His Work. (John 10:6 .) 3. At the Feast of Dedication; the Repeated Testimony. (John 10:22 .) 4. Accuse...
JOHN 10. THE CLOSE OF THE MINISTRY IN JERUSALEM. [85] John 10:1. The Good Shepherd. The first part of this chapter records Jesus-' teaching on true and false leadership. In John 10:1 we have a close r...
THEREFORE DOTH MY FATHER LOVE ME. The ground of the Father's love was that Christ had given himself for man. The Father loves those of us best who are most like Christ in this respect....
THE SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP (John 10:1-6)...
"The reason why my Father loves me is that I lay down my life that I may take it again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have full authority to lay it down, and I have...
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...
Further description of the True Shepherd. (1) His intimate knowledge of His sheep; (2) His readiness to die for them. This latter point recurs repeatedly as a sort of refrain, like -I will raise him u...
"The form of the discourse in the first half of chap. 10 is remarkable. It resembles the Synoptic parables, but not exactly. The parable is a short narrative, which is kept wholly separate from the id...
John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. The Work We here enter on the second portion of the first main division of the Gospel, thus subdivided: The Work (1) among _Jews_, (2) among _Samaritans_, (3) among _Galilean...
_Therefore_ Better, _On this account_, or, FOR THIS CAUSE (John 12:18; John 12:27). See on John 7:22 and John 8:47, and comp....
ΔΙᾺ ΤΟΥ͂ΤΟ. FOR THIS CAUSE: see on John 5:16; John 7:21. The Father’s love for the incarnate Son is intensified by the self-sacrifice of the Son, which was a προσφορὰ κ. θυσία τῷ θεῷ εἰς ὀσμὴν εὐωδίας...
14–18. Further description of the True Shepherd. (1) His intimate knowledge of His sheep; (2) His readiness to die for them. This latter point recurs repeatedly as a sort of refrain, like ‘I will rais...
THE ALLEGORY OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD...
1–18. “The form of the discourse in the first half of chap. 10 is remarkable. It resembles the Synoptic parables, but not exactly. The parable is a short narrative, which is kept wholly separate from...
Ver 14. I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. 15. As the Father knows me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16. And other sheep I have, which...
_JESUS IS THE GOOD SHEPHERD -- JOHN 10:8-21:_ Jesus claimed to be both the door of the sheep and He claimed to be the Good Shepherd. It is through Jesus alone that man can be saved. Jesus refereed to...
ΛΆΒΩ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΛΑΜΒΆΝΩ (G2983) брать, принимать. _Conj._ с ΪΝ (G2443) выражает цель (Barrett)....
DISCOURSE: 1664 VOLUNTARINESS OF CHRIST’S UNDERTAKING John 10:17. _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 lay it dow...
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 corr...
THE GOOD SHEPHERD _Text 10:11-21_ 11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep. 12 He that is a hireling, and not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, behol...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 10:11-21 The following is submitted as an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:— The Pharisees were the shepherds of Israel. In casting out of the s...
Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. THEREFORE, [ Dia (G1223) touto (G5124), 'For this cause'] doth my Father love me, because I lay down my lif...
3 John the baptist was the door keeper who opened the door to the true Shepherd. Many another has come claiming to be Israel's shepherd, but they did not come in God's appointed way. 4 The Eastern sh...
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 words...
As usual in this Gospel, the death and resurrection of Christ are united in one idea....
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 10 JESUS TELLS A STORY ABOUT A *SHEPHERD AND HIS SHEEP 10:1-10 V1 Jesus said, ‘I tell you the truth. Only thieves climb...
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. The thought is that in the relation between the Father and the...
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. But...
At this point the exposition of the functions of the good shepherd terminates; but as a note or appendix Jesus adds διὰ τοῦτο, “on this account,” _i.e._, because I lay down my life for the sheep (John...
In these verses Jesus designates Himself “the Good Shepherd” and emphasises two features by which a good shepherd can be known: (1) his giving his life for the sheep, and (2) the reciprocal knowledge...
to John 10:21. _The good and the hireling shepherds_....
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 refers to...
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 wo...
(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 willingly...
_Therefore doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, &c. Christ here speaketh of himself, as made man for the redemption of mankind: or rather, as he was our Redeemer, both God and man: for...
CHAPTER 8. THE GOOD SHEPHERD John 10:1-29. “ _Truly_, _truly_, _I say unto you_, _The one not coming in through the door_, _but climbing up some other way_, _he is a thief and a robber_.” It is subse...
SECOND SECTION: 10:1-21. THE FIRST DISCOURSE. The following discourse includes three parables: that of the _shepherd_ (John 10:1-6), that of the _gate_ (John 10:7-10), and that of the _good shepherd_...
“ _Therefore does my Father love me: because I give my life that I may take it again;_ 18 _no one takes it away from me, but I give it of myself; I have power to give, and I have power to take it agai...
SECOND PART: THE DEVELOPMENT OF UNBELIEF IN ISRAEL. 5:1- 12:50. UP to this point, decided faith and unbelief have been only exceptional phenomena; the masses have remained in a state of passive indiff...
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 ta...
The point at which we have arrived gives me an opportunity of saying a little on the beginning of this chapter, and the end of the last; for it is well known that many men, and, I am sorry to add, not...
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 is my beloved...
In chapter 10 He contrasts Himself with all those who pretended, or had pretended, to be shepherds of Israel. He develops these three points; He comes in by the door; He is the door; and He is the She...
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 with...
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, _ kn...
_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 liv...
The end of the discourse and its effect:...
THEREFORE DOTH MY FATHER LOVE ME, BECAUSE I LAY DOWN MY LIFE, THAT I MIGHT TAKE IT AGAIN....
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 entering...
10-18 Christ is a good Shepherd; many who were not thieves, yet were careless in their duty, and by their neglect the flock was much hurt. Bad principles are the root of bad practices. The Lord Jesus...
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 sho...
Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book X an incarnation. And he is disposed (to maintain), that He who was seen in the flesh and was crucified[24] Pseudo-Gregory Thaumaturgus Twelve Topics on th...
John 10:17 Therefore G5124 G1223 Father G3962 loves G25 (G5719) Me G3165 because G3754 I G1473 down...
THE GOOD SHEPHERD AND THE FALSE SHEPHERDS (JOHN 10:1). 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 a studie...
“This is why my Father loves me, because I lay down my life, in order that I might take it again ” We are reminded here that the Father is equally as interested in and concerned about the sheep as Jes...
John 10:17. THEREFORE DOTH THE FATHER LOVE ME, BECAUSE I LAY DOWN MY LIFE THAT I MAY TAKE IT AGAIN. In John 10:15 we have read of the Father's recognition of the Good Shepherd, who gives the highest p...
The blind man, restored to sight, is brought before the Pharisees with the view of instituting proceedings against Jesus, who, by the healing on the Sabbath, had violated the sanctity of the day of re...
FOR THIS REASON (δια τουτο). Points to the following οτ clause. The Father's love for the Son is drawn out (John 3:16) by the voluntary offering of the Son for the sin of the world (Romans 5:8). Hen...
John 10:17 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, comforting Hims...
John 10:1. _Verily, verily, I say unto you,_ Now we may be absolutely certain that there is something of the utmost importance wherever Christ uses the solemn asseveration of «Verily, verily,» the sa...
John 10:1. _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._ The positiveness of our Lord's teac...
John 10:1. _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 door i...
CONTENTS: Discourse on the Good Shepherd. Jesus' deity asserted. CHARACTERS: Jesus, God. CONCLUSION: God, our great owner, the sheep of whose pasture we are by creation, has constituted His Son, Jes...
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 Abraha...
I GIVE IT UP OF MY OWN FREE WILL. This destroys the idea that Jesus came to set up a political kingdom, but _was frustrated_ by being crucified. Jesus _gave himself_ for man of his own free will! This...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 10:17 I LAY DOWN MY LIFE THAT I MAY TAKE IT UP AGAIN means that Jesus voluntarily gave up his life (see John 19:30) and that his divine nature enabled him to rise
1-41 CHAPTER 10 VER. 1. _Verily, verily_ (that is in truth, most truly and most assuredly), _I say unto you, He that entereth not_, &c. He puts forth this parable to show who He is, and who are His ri...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 10:1 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 enmity...
EXPOSITION JOHN 10:1 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 malignants. These men...
So chapter 10, it would seem to be as just a continuation of this whole movement here of the blind man receiving his sight, being put out by the organized religious system, being taken in by Jesus Chr...
Hebrews 2:9; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 42:21; Isaiah 53:7; John 15:10;...
THE DOOR OF THE SHEEPFOLD John 10:1 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: "I am THE...
Hence note, 1. That Jesus Christ certainly foreknew his own death and resurrection. 2. That Christ was. volunteer in dying, HE LAID DOWN HIS LIFE, none could have taken it from him. 'Tis true, his de...