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Text -- John 10:17 (NET)

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10:17 This is why the Father loves me– because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again.
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Robertson: Joh 10:17 - -- For this reason ( dia touto ). Points to the following hoti clause. The Father’ s love for the Son is drawn out (Joh 3:16) by the voluntary of...

For this reason ( dia touto ).

Points to the following hoti clause. The Father’ s love for the Son is drawn out (Joh 3:16) by the voluntary offering of the Son for the sin of the world (Rom 5:8). Hence the greater exaltation (Phi 2:9). Jesus does for us what any good shepherd does (Joh 10:11) as he has already said (Joh 10:15). The value of the atoning death of Christ lies in the fact that he is the Son of God, the Son of Man, free of sin, and that he makes the offering voluntarily (Heb 9:14).

Robertson: Joh 10:17 - -- That I may take it again ( hina palin labō autēn ). Purpose clause with hina and second aorist active subjunctive of lambanō . He looked beyo...

That I may take it again ( hina palin labō autēn ).

Purpose clause with hina and second aorist active subjunctive of lambanō . He looked beyond his death on the Cross to the resurrection. "The purpose of the Passion was not merely to exhibit his unselfish love; it was in order that He might resume His life, now enriched with quickening power as never before"(Bernard). The Father raised Jesus from the dead (Act 2:32). There is spontaneity in the surrender to death and in the taking life back again (Dods).

Wesley: Joh 10:17 - -- I cheerfully die to expiate the sins of men, to the end I may rise again for their justification.

I cheerfully die to expiate the sins of men, to the end I may rise again for their justification.

JFB: Joh 10:15-18 - -- What claim to absolute equality with the Father could exceed this? (See on Mat 11:27).

What claim to absolute equality with the Father could exceed this? (See on Mat 11:27).

JFB: Joh 10:15-18 - -- 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 glorio...

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 dust of death, "that we might live through Him." A candid interpretation of the words, "for the sheep," ought to go far to establish the special relation of the vicarious death of Christ to the Church.

JFB: Joh 10:17 - -- As the highest act of the Son's love to the Father was the laying down of His life for the sheep at His "commandment," so the Father's love to Him as ...

As the highest act of the Son's love to the Father was the laying down of His life for the sheep at His "commandment," so the Father's love to Him as His incarnate Son reaches its consummation, and finds its highest justification, in that sublimest and most affecting of all acts.

JFB: Joh 10:17 - -- His resurrection-life being indispensable to the accomplishment of the fruit of His death.

His resurrection-life being indispensable to the accomplishment of the fruit of His death.

Clarke: Joh 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 f...

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 Father loveth me particularly on this account, because I am going to lay down my life for the life of the world. Again, do not suppose that I shall be put to death by your rulers, because I have not strength to resist them. I Lay Down my life voluntarily and cheerfully; no one can take it away from me, see Joh 10:18; and I shall give you the fullest proof of my supreme power by raising, in three days, that very crucified, wounded body from the grave.

Calvin: Joh 10:17 - -- 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 v...

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 Son, in whom the good-pleasure of God dwells,
(Mat 3:17.)

But as he was made man on our account, and as the Father delighted in him, in order that he might reconcile us to himself, we need not wonder if he declares it to be the reason why the Father loveth him, that our salvation is dearer to him than his own life. This is a wonderful commendation of the goodness of God to us, and ought justly to arouse our whole souls into rapturous admiration, that not only does God extend to us the love which is due to the only-begotten Son, but he refers it to us as the final cause. And indeed there was no necessity that Christ should take upon him our flesh, in which he was beloved, but that it might be the pledge of the mercy of his Father in redeeming us.

That I may take it again. As the disciples might be deeply grieved on account of what they had heard about the death of Christ, and as their faith might even be greatly shaken, he comforts them by the hope of his resurrection, which would speedily take place; as if he said, that he would not die on the condition of being swallowed up by death, but in order that he might soon rise again as a conqueror. And even at the present day, we ought to contemplate the death of Christ, so as to remember, at the same time, the glory of his resurrection. Thus, we know that he is life, because, in his contest with death, he obtained a splendid victory, and achieved a noble triumph.

TSK: Joh 10:17 - -- Joh 3:25, Joh 15:9, Joh 15:10, Joh 17:4, Joh 17:5, Joh 17:24-26; Isa 42:1, Isa 42:21, Isa 53:7-12; Heb 2:9

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Barnes: Joh 10:17 - -- 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 Fa...

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 open the way for their salvation. This proves that the salvation of man was an object dear to God, and that it was a source of special gratification to him that his Son was willing to lay down his life to accomplish his great purposes of benevolence.

That I might take it again - Be raised up from the dead, and glorified, and still carry on the work of redemption. See this same sentiment sublimely expressed in Phi 2:5-11.

Poole: Joh 10:17 - -- 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...

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 should not have dominion over him: by which he comforteth his disciples concerning his death, declaring,

a) That he was a freewill offering, as he further openeth it in the next verse.

b) That he should not perish in the grave, but rise again from the dead.

2. That therefore the Father loved him; for:

a) By this means he declared himself with power to be the Son of God, and the Father could not but love his Son. And:

b) By this means also he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross, Phi 2:8 .

So as that the Father had many reasons to love the Son; and amongst others, this obedience of his to death, even the accursed death upon the cross, to fulfil his Father’ s will, for the redemption and salvation of the sons of men, was not the least: and by this also he commendeth his Father’ s love to those that are his sheep, in that his Father loveth him with the more exceeding love, for laying down his life, to purchase their redemption and salvation.

Haydock: Joh 10:17 - -- 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 ra...

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 he laid down his life, and died as man, and had power to take it up again, as God. Yet the command of laying it down, he as man received from the Father: thus as man, he was obedient to him even to the death on the cross. See Philippians ii. 8. (Witham)

Gill: Joh 10:17 - -- 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 an...

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 him, equal to him; and also as Mediator, engaging for, and on the behalf of his chosen people; and likewise as he was clothed with their nature, and even in his state of humiliation; and not only as subject to his ordinances, and obedient to his will, and doing what was pleasing in his sight, but likewise as suffering in their room and stead, and he loved him on this account; the bruising of him was a pleasure to him, not for the sake of that itself, but because hereby his counsels and decrees were accomplished, his covenant fulfilled, and the salvation of his people obtained: hence it follows here,

because I lay down my life; that is, for the sheep; to ransom them from sin and Satan, the law, its curse and condemnation, and from death and hell, wrath, ruin and destruction: and the laying down his life on this account, was not only well pleasing to his Father, but likewise was done, with the following view; or at least this was the event of it,

that I might take it again; as he did, by raising himself from the dead, by which he was declared to be the Son of God; and to have made full satisfaction to divine justice, for the sins of his people, and therefore rose again for their, justification; and to be the victorious conqueror over death, having now abolished it, and having in his hands the keys of it, the power over that, and the grave: and which life he took up again, by his divine power, and as the surety of his people, to use it for their good; by ascending to his God and theirs, entering into heaven as their forerunner, appearing in the presence of God for them, as their advocate, and ever living to make intercession for them.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Joh 10:17 Or “die willingly.”

Geneva Bible: Joh 10:17 ( 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...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Joh 10:1-42 - --1 Christ is the door, and the good shepherd.19 Divers opinions of him.23 He proves by his works that he is Christ the Son of God;31 escapes the Jews;3...

Combined Bible: Joh 10:11-21 - --of the Gospel of John    CHAPTER 35    Christ, the Good Shepherd    John 10:11-21    The following is s...

MHCC: Joh 10:10-18 - --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 ar...

Matthew Henry: Joh 10:1-18 - -- It is not certain whether this discourse was at the feast of dedication in the winter (spoken of Joh 10:22), which may be taken as the date, not o...

Barclay: Joh 10:17-18 - --Few passages in the New Testament tell us so much about Jesus in so short a compass. (i) It tells us that Jesus saw his whole life as an act of obedie...

Constable: Joh 1:19--13:1 - --II. Jesus' public ministry 1:19--12:50 The first part of the body of John's Gospel records Jesus' public ministr...

Constable: Joh 7:10--11:1 - --H. Jesus' third visit to Jerusalem 7:10-10:42 This section of the text describes Jesus' teaching in Jeru...

Constable: Joh 10:1-21 - --7. The Good Shepherd discourse 10:1-21 Evidently this teaching followed what John recorded in ch...

Constable: Joh 10:7-18 - --Jesus' expansion of the figure 10:7-18 The difference between this teaching and Jesus' parables in the Synoptics now becomes clearer. Jesus proceeded ...

College: Joh 10:1-42 - --JOHN 10 6. The Feast of Dedication and the Shepherd Analogy (10:1-42) There is no clear break between Jesus' words in 9:41 and 10:1, but this seems ...

McGarvey: Joh 10:1-21 - -- LXXXII. DISCOURSE ON THE GOOD SHEPHERD. (Jerusalem, December, A. D. 29.) dJOHN X. 1-21.    d1 Verily, verily, I say to you [unto the ...

Lapide: Joh 10:1-32 - --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 fo...

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Introduction / Outline

Robertson: John (Book Introduction) THE Fourth Gospel By Way of Introduction Greatest of Books The test of time has given the palm to the Fourth Gospel over all the books of the wor...

JFB: John (Book Introduction) THE author of the Fourth Gospel was the younger of the two sons of Zebedee, a fisherman on the Sea of Galilee, who resided at Bethsaida, where were bo...

JFB: John (Outline) THE WORD MADE FLESH. (Joh 1:1-14) A SAYING OF THE BAPTIST CONFIRMATORY OF THIS. (Joh 1:15) SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED. (Joh 1:16-18) THE BAPTIST'S TESTIM...

TSK: John (Book Introduction) John, who, according to the unanimous testimony of the ancient fathers and ecclesiastical writers, was the author of this Gospel, was the son of Zebed...

TSK: John 10 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Joh 10:1, Christ is the door, and the good shepherd; Joh 10:19, Divers opinions of him; Joh 10:23, He proves by his works that he is Chri...

Poole: John 10 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 10

MHCC: John (Book Introduction) The apostle and evangelist, John, seems to have been the youngest of the twelve. He was especially favoured with our Lord's regard and confidence, so ...

MHCC: John 10 (Chapter Introduction) (Joh 10:1-5) The parable of the good shepherd. (Joh 10:6-9) Christ the Door. (Joh 10:10-18) Christ the good Shepherd. (Joh 10:19-21) The Jews' opin...

Matthew Henry: John (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Gospel According to St. John It is not material to enquire when and where this gospel was written; ...

Matthew Henry: John 10 (Chapter Introduction) In this chapter we have, I. Christ's parabolical discourse concerning himself as the door of the sheepfold, and the shepherd of the sheep (v. 1-18...

Barclay: John (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SAINT JOHN The Gospel Of The EagleEye For many Christian people the Gospel according to St. John is the mos...

Barclay: John 10 (Chapter Introduction) The Shepherd And His Sheep (Joh_10:1-6) The Shepherd And His Sheep (Joh_10:1-6 Continued) The Door To Life (Joh_10:7-10) The True And The False S...

Constable: John (Book Introduction) Introduction Writer The writer of this Gospel did not identify himself as such in the ...

Constable: John (Outline) Outline I. Prologue 1:1-18 A. The preincarnate Word 1:1-5 B. The witness...

Constable: John John Bibliography Allen, Ronald B. "Affirming Right-of-Way on Ancient Paths." Bibliotheca Sacra 153:609 (Januar...

Haydock: John (Book Introduction) THE HOLY GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST, ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN. INTRODUCTION St. John, the evangelist, a native of Bathsaida, in Galilee, was the son ...

Gill: John (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO JOHN The author of this Gospel is John, the son of Zebedee and Salome, the brother of James the greater; he outlived the rest of th...

College: John (Book Introduction) PREFACE INTRODUCTION Even the casual reader of the New Testament will notice that the first three accounts of Jesus' life are generally similar in t...

College: John (Outline) OUTLINE A good outline is more than half the battle in one's understanding and remembering the contents of any book. There is more than one way to bre...

Lapide: John (Book Introduction) NOTICE TO THE READER. Gospel of John Intro ——o—— AS it has been found impossible to compress the Translation of the Commentary upon S. John...

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