No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This commandment I received from my Father.”

The one who loves his life destroys it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards it for eternal life.

The experts in the law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught committing adultery. They made her stand in front of them

This is why the Father loves me – because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again.

So Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She has kept it for the day of my burial.

When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight and replied, “Whoever among you is guiltless may be the first to throw a stone at her.”

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the people who had come with her weeping, he was intensely moved in spirit and greatly distressed.

He then said to his disciple, “Look, here is your mother!” From that very time the disciple took her into his own home.

Then the people who were with Mary in the house consoling her saw her get up quickly and go out. They followed her, because they thought she was going to the tomb to weep there.

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, pulled it out and struck the high priest’s slave, cutting off his right ear. (Now the slave’s name was Malchus.)