John 10:18 Cross References - Moffatt

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.

⁵³ What! do you think I cannot appeal to my Father to furnish me at this moment with over twelve legions of angels? ⁵⁴ Only, how could the scriptures be fulfilled then — the scriptures that say this must be so?" ⁵⁵ At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, "Have you sallied out to arrest me like a robber, with swords and cudgels? Day after day I sat in the temple teaching, and you never seized me. ⁵⁶ However, this has all happened for the fulfilment of the prophetic scriptures!" Then all the disciples left him and fled;

¹⁹ Jesus replied, "Destroy this sanctuary and I will raise it up in three days." ²⁰ "This sanctuary took forty-six years to build," the Jews retorted, "and you are going to raise it up in three days!" ²¹ He meant the sanctuary of his body, however,

³⁰ I can do nothing of my own accord; I pass judgment on men as I am taught by God, and my judgment is just, because my aim is not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

³⁸ for I have come down from heaven not to carry out my own will but the will of him who sent me,

¹¹ I am the good shepherd; a good shepherd lays down his own life for the sheep.

¹⁵ (just as the Father knows me and I know the Father,) and I lay down my life for the sheep.

¹⁷ This is why my Father loves me, because I lay down my life to take it up again.

³¹ his coming will only serve to let the world see that I love the Father and that I am acting as the Father ordered. Rise, let us be going."

¹⁰ If you keep my commands you will remain within my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain within his love.

⁵ "Jesus the Nazarene," they replied. Jesus said, "I am he." (And Judas the traitor was standing beside them.) ⁶ When he said, "I am he," they fell back and dropped to the ground;

¹¹ Jesus answered, "You would have no power over me, unless it had been granted you from above. So you are less guilty than he who betrayed me to you."

²⁴ but God raised him by checking the pangs of death. Death could not hold him.

³² This Jesus God raised, as we can all bear witness.

¹⁵ and you killed the pioneer of Life. But God raised him from the dead, as we can bear witness.

⁶ Though he was divine by nature, he did not set store upon equality with God ⁷ but emptied himself by taking the nature of a servant; born in human guise ⁸ and appearing in human form, he humbly stooped in his obedience even to die, and to die upon the cross.

¹⁴ who gave himself up for us to redeem us from all iniquity and secure himself a clean people with a zest for good works.

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.

¹⁴ Since the children then share blood and flesh, he himself participated in their nature, so that by dying he might crush him who wields the power of death (that is to say, the devil) ¹⁵ and release from thraldom those who lay under a life-long fear of death.

⁶ Just as elsewhere he says, Thou art a priest for ever, with the rank of Melchizedek. ⁷ In the days of his flesh, with bitter cries and tears, he offered prayers and supplications to Him who was able to save him from death; and he was heard, because of his godly fear. ⁸ Thus, Son though he was, he learned by all he suffered how to obey, ⁹ and by being thus perfected he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him,

⁶ in holocausts and sin-offerings thou takest no delight. ⁷ So I said, 'Here I come — in the roll of the book this is written of me — I come to do thy will, O God.' ⁸ He begins by saying, thou hast no desire for, thou takest no delight in, sacrifices and offerings and holocausts and sin-offerings (and these are what are offered in terms of the Law); ⁹ he then adds, Here I come to do thy will. He does away with the first in order to establish the second. ¹⁰ And it is by this will that we are consecrated, because Jesus Christ once for all has offered up his body.