“even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.”
— WEB
John 10:15
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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.
“As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.”
— KJV
“even as the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.”
— ASV
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Commentary
As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father--What claim to absolute equality with the Father could exceed this? (See on Mat 11:27). and I lay down my life for the sheep--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.
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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