17 This is why my Father loves me, because I lay down my life to take it up again.
John 10:17 Cross References - Moffatt
John 3:25
25 Now a dispute arose between John's disciples and a Jew over the question of 'purification';
John 10:11
11 I am the good shepherd; a good shepherd lays down his own life for the sheep.
John 10:15
15 (just as the Father knows me and I know the Father,) and I lay down my life for the sheep.
John 10:18
18 No one takes it from me, I lay it down of my own accord: I have power to lay it down and also power to take it up again; I have my Father's orders for this.
John 15:9-10
John 17:4-5
John 17:24-26
24 Father, it is my will that these, thy gift to me, may be beside me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me, because thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
25 O just Father, though the world has not known thee, I have known thee, and they have known that thou hast sent me;
26 so have I declared, so will I declare, thy Name to them, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them."
Hebrews 2:9
9 what we do see is Jesus who was put lower than the angels for a little while to suffer death, and who has been crowned with glory and honour that by God's grace he might taste death for everyone.