John 10:18 (WEB)
No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.”
Catechism · 3
Jesus Died Crucified
“Indeed, out of love for his Father and for men, whom the Father wants to save, Jesus freely accepted his Passion and death: "No one takes [my life] from me, but I lay it down of my own accord."” — Catechism footnote: Jn 10:18.
“At the same time it is the offering of the Son of God made man, who in freedom and love offered his life to his Father through the Holy Spirit in reparation for our disobedience.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 10:17-18; 15:13; Heb 9:14; 1 Jn 4:10.
On the Third Day He Rose from the Dead
“I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again."” — Catechism footnote: Jn 10:17-18.
Fathers and councils · 92
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus II.16Book II
“I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.”” — editor's note: John x. 18.
Read the whole comment - Origen, Against Celsus III.32Book III
“I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.”” — editor's note: Cf. John x. 18.
Read the whole comment - Origen, De Principiis II.6Book II
“…Author of its being, and another with a feebler and weaker regard, that soul (anima) regarding which Jesus said, “No one shall take my life (animam) from me,” inhering, from the beginning of the creation, and afterwards, inseparably and indissolubly in Him, as being the Wisdom and Word of God, and the Truth and the…” — editor's note: John x. 18. “No other soul which descended into a human body has stamped on itself a pure and unstained resemblance of its former stamp, save that one of which…
Read the whole comment - Origen, De Principiis II.8Book II
“For when it wishes to indicate any suffering or perturbation affecting Him, it indicates it under the name of soul; as when it says, “Now is My soul troubled;” and, “My soul is sorrowful, even unto death;” and, “No man taketh My soul from Me, but I lay it down of Myself.”” — editor's note: John x. 18.
Read the whole comment - Origen, De Principiis IV.3Book IV
“I have power to lay down my life, and I have power to take it again.”” — editor's note: John x. 18.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“…this temple, and in three days I will raise it up;” and again, “No man taketh My life from Me; I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again”; and when those who were armed with swords and staves drew near to Him on the night before His Passion, He caused them all to go backward by saying “I am He,”…” — editor's note: S. John x. 18
Read the whole comment“And so too He foretells that at the time of His Passion He would voluntarily detach His soul from His body, saying, “No man taketh” my soul “from Me, but I lay it down of Myself: I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.”” — editor's note: Cf. S. John x. 17, 18. Here again the word ψυχήν is rendered in the A.V. by “life.”
Read the whole comment“…soul from His Body, Who said to His own Father “Into Thy hands I commend My Spirit,” Who, as He says, “had power to lay it down and had power to take it again”), He Who, because He is the Lord of glory, despised that which is shame among men, having concealed, as it were, the flame of His life in His bodily Nature,…” — editor's note: S. John x. 18
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Tertullian
“In a later passage He declares that He is known by the Father, and the Father by Him; adding that He was so wholly loved by the Father, that He was laying down His life, because He had received this commandment from the Father.” — editor's note: Vers. 15, 17, 18.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
- Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians III.4Discourse III
“…into the irreligion of Sabellius, considering Him to be the Father, therefore He has said ‘Was given unto Me,’ and ‘I received,’ and ‘Were delivered to Me,’ only to shew that He is not the Father, but the Father’s Word, and the Eternal Son, who because of His likeness to the Father, has eternally what He has from…” — editor's note: John x. 18; Mat. xxviii. 18.
Read the whole comment - Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians III.6Discourse III
“For to be troubled was proper to the flesh, and to have power to lay down His life and take it again, when He will, was no property of men but of the Word’s power.” — editor's note: This might be taken as an illustration of the ut voluit supr. Or. i. 44, n. 11. And so the expressions in the Evangelists, ‘Into Thy hands I commend My…
Read the whole comment “…Lord is in want, when He says, ‘Is given unto Me,’ and ‘I received,’ and if Paul says, ‘Wherefore He highly exalted Him,’ and ‘He set Him at the right hand,’ and the like, we must say that our Lord, being Word and Son of God, bore a body, and became Son of Man, that, having become Mediator between God, and men, He…” — editor's note: Matt. xxviii. 18; John x. 18; Phil. ii. 9; Eph. i. 20.
Read the whole comment“And besides, the Saviour came to accomplish not His own death, but the death of men; whence He did not lay aside His body by a death of His own—for He was Life and had none—but received that death which came from men, in order perfectly to do away with this when it met Him in His own body.” — editor's note: Cf. Joh. x. 17, 18.
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Hippolytus of Rome
“…and commends to Him His spirit; and bowing His head, He gives up the ghost, who said, “I have power to lay down my life, and I have power to take it again;” and because He was not overmastered by death, as being Himself Life, He said this: “I lay it down of myself.”” — editor's note: John x. 18.
Read the whole comment“And he is disposed (to maintain), that He who was seen in the flesh and was crucified is Son, but that the Father it is who dwells in Him.” — editor's note: σταυρούμενον . The ms. reads κρατούμενον, which would mean seized or vanquished. The former yields no meaning, and the latter conveys an erroneous conception…
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Catena Aurea on John
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
“But let them believe what God says below, I have power to lay it (my life) down, and I have power to take it again: (John 10:18) and then let them ask, why He says, Mine hour is not yet come: nor let them on such a ground subject the Creator of heaven to fate; seeing that,…” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment - OrigenCatena Aurea on John
“But He Who offered the lamb for a sacrifice, was God hid in human form, the great Priest, He who saith below, No man taketh it (My life) from Me, but I lay it down of Myself: (John 10:18) whence this name, the Lamb of God: for He carrying our sorrows, (Isaiah 53:4.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
Two evil persons have been mentioned, one that kills, and robs the sheep, another that doth not hinder: the one standing for those movers of seditions; the other for the rulers of the Jews, who did not take care of…
Read the whole comment - Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on John
As if He said, I love My sheep, and they love and follow Me. For he who loves not the truth, is as yet very far from knowing it.
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on John
Hence the difference of the hireling and the Shepherd. The hireling does not know his sheep, because he sees them so little. The Shepherd knows His sheep, because He is so attractive to them.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
Then that thou mayest not attribute to the Shepherd and the sheep the same measure of knowledge, He adds, As the Father knoweth Me, even so know I the Father: i. e. I know Him as certainly as He knoweth Me. This then…
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And I lay down My life for My sheep. As if to say, This is why I know My Father, and am known by the Father, because I lay down My life for My sheep; i. e. by My love for My sheep, I shew how much I love My Father.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
He gives it too as a proof of His authority. In the same way the Apostle maintains his own commission in opposition to the false Apostles, by enumerating his dangers and sufferings.
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on John
For the deceivers did not expose their lives for the sheep, but, like hirelings, deserted their followers. Our Lord, on the other hand, protected His disciples: Let these go their way. (infr. 18:8)
Read the whole comment - Gregory the GreatCatena Aurea on John
But as He came to redeem not only the Jews, but the Gentiles, He adds, And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
The sheep hitherto spoken of are those of the stock of Israel according to the flesh. But there were others of the stock of Israel, according to faith, Gentiles, who were as yet out of the fold; predestinated, but…
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
What wonder that these should hear My voice, and follow Me, when others are waiting to do the same. Both these flocks are dispersed, and without shepherds; for it follows, And they shall hear My voice. And then He…
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Of two flocks He maketh one fold, uniting the Jews and Gentiles in His faith.
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on John
For there is one sign of baptism for all, and one Shepherd, even the Word of God. Let the Manichean mark; there is but one fold and one Shepherd set forth both in the Old and New Testaments.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
What does He mean then when He says, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel? Only, that whereas He manifested Himself personally to the Jews, He did not go Himself to the Gentiles, but sent others.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
The word must here (I must bring) does not signify necessity, but only that the thing would take place. Therefore doth My Father love Me, because I lay down My life, that I might take it again. They had called Him an…
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i. e. Because I die, to rise again. There is great force in, I lay down. Let not the Jews, He says, boast; rage they may, but if I should not choose to lay down My life, what will they do by raging?
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on John
The Father does not bestow His love on the Son as a reward for the death He suffered in our behalf; but He loves Him, as beholding in the Begotten His own essence, whence proceeded such love for mankind.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
Or He says, in condescension to our weakness, Though there were nothing else which made Me love you, this would, that ye are so loved by My Father, that, by dying for you, I shall win His love. Not that He was not…
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Wherein He shewed that His natural death was not the consequence of sin in Him, but of His own simple will, which was the why, the when, and the how: I have power to lay it down.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
As they had often plotted to kill Him, He tells them their efforts will be useless, unless He is willing. I have such power over My own life, that no one can take it from Me, against My will. This is not true of men.…
Read the whole comment - Theophylact of OhridCatena Aurea on John
He only means His perfect agreement with His Father.
Read the whole comment - Alcuin of YorkCatena Aurea on John
For the Word doth not receive a command by word, but containeth in Himself all the Father’s commandments. When the Son is said to receive what He possesseth of Himself, His power is not lessened, but only His…
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After declaring Himself the Master of His own life and death, which was a lofty assumption, He makes a more humble confession; thus wonderfully uniting both characters; shewing that He was neither inferior to or a…
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How doth our Lord lay down His own life? Christ is the Word, and man, i. e. in soul and body. Doth the Word lay down His life, and take it again; or doth the human soul, or doth the flesh? If it was the Word of God…
Read the whole comment - Alcuin of YorkCatena Aurea on John
But the light shined in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not. There was a division among the Jews for these sayings. And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
Because He spoke as one greater than man, they said He had a devil. But that He had not a devil, others proved from His works: Others said, These are not the words of Him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes…
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We have heard of the patience of God, and of salvation preached amid revilings. They obstinately preferred tempting Him to obeying Him.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on Matthew
“How too do they answer innumerable objections from the Gospel Scriptures, in which the Lord speaks so many things manifestly contrary to them? as is that, “My soul is sorrowful even unto death,” [Matt 26:38] and, “I have power to lay down My life;” [John 10:18] and many more things of the like kind.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment - JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
“It was a mark of Divine power in Him thus to dismiss the Spirit as Himself had said, “No man can take my life from me, but I lay it down and take it again.” [John 10:18]” — the author cites it
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“Hear what He says: I have power to lay down My life, and I have power to take it again: I yield it of My own choice to My enemies; for unless I chose, this could not be.” — editor's note: Ib. x. 18.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences I–X IX.34Conference IX
“I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it again.”” — editor's note: S. John x. 18.
Read the whole comment “I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.”” — editor's note: S. John x. 18.
Read the whole comment“I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.”” — editor's note: S. John x. 18.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…is life and peace, He might, by righteousness conjoined with God, cancel the death of justified sinners, which He willed to have in common with them.” — editor's note: Not that our Lord is to be supposed, as some have held, to have been under the law of death in Adam, because “in Adam all die” (1 Cor. xv. 22; see the whole of…
Read the whole comment“No man taketh it from Me; I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.”” — editor's note: John x. 17, 18.
Read the whole comment“He desired to eat the Passover, and to lay down His life when He would, and again when He would to take it; and Thou hast given it to Him.” — editor's note: John x. 18.
Read the whole comment““I laid Me down and slept, and rose up again.”” — editor's note: John x. 18.
Read the whole comment“For Thou overcomest all men, all judges; and he that deemeth himself just, before Thee is unjust: Thou alone justly judgest, having been unjustly judged, That hast power to lay down Thy life, and hast power again to take it.” — editor's note: John x. 18.
Read the whole comment“…God He is; Son of God because of the form of God, Son of Man because of the form of a servant: having in His power to lay down His life: and to take it again.” — editor's note: John x. 18.
Read the whole comment“…said, “Power I have to lay down My Soul, and power I have again to take it: no one taketh it from Me, but I Myself lay it down from Me, and again I take it.”” — editor's note: John x. 18.
Read the whole comment“No man taketh ‘it from Me;’ for I Myself slept, but I lay it down of Myself, and take it again,” because it is He Himself who delivers His own soul from the hands of Hell.” — editor's note: John x. 18; Ps. iii. 5.
Read the whole comment““And of those that speak evil against my soul:” by denying that He, when He had willed, could have arisen: though He saith, “I have power to lay down My life, and I have power to take it again.”” — editor's note: John x. 18.
Read the whole comment“…other Persons were excluded, on account of the unity of the same Trinity and the One substance and Godhead of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” — editor's note: [An act belonging eminently and officially to a particular trinitarian person is not performed to the total exclusion of the other persons, because of the…
Read the whole comment“No man taketh it from me, but I lay down my life that I might take it again.”” — editor's note: John x. 17, 18
Read the whole comment“No man taketh it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself, and take it again.”” — editor's note: John x. 18.
Read the whole comment“He is not angry at being conquered, for He is not angry at being crucified.” — editor's note: John x. 18.
Read the whole comment“No man taketh it from me; but I lay it down of myself, and take it again.”” — editor's note: John x. 18.
Read the whole comment“…but He hath delivered it by that power of which He says in the Gospel, “I have the power of laying down my life, and I have the power of taking it again.”” — editor's note: John x. 18.
Read the whole comment“Well, let them believe Christ when He saith, “I have power to lay down my life and to take it up again: no man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself, and I take it again.”” — editor's note: John x. 18.
Read the whole comment“Hear His own words: “I have power to lay down my life, and I have power to take it again: no man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself, that I may take it again.”” — editor's note: John x. 18.
Read the whole comment“He showed this power when the Jews sought Him.” — editor's note: John x. 18.
Read the whole comment“You have Him saying in another place, “I have power to lay down my life, and I have power to take it up again.”” — editor's note: Chap. x. 18.
Read the whole comment“He was troubled, then, who had power to lay down His life, and had power to take it again.” — editor's note: Chap. x. 18.
Read the whole comment“He had power to lay down His life, and to take it again; but we have no power to live as long as we wish; and die we must, however unwilling: He, by dying, straightway slew death in Himself; we, by His death, are…” — editor's note: Chap. x. 18.
Read the whole comment“And then, because nothing now remained that still required to be done before He died, as if He, who had power to lay down His life and to take it up again, had at length completed all for whose completion He was waiting, “He bowed His head, and gave up the ghost.”” — editor's note: Chap. x. 18.
Read the whole comment“But if the good Shepherd, who laid down His own life for His sheep, has raised up so many martyrs for Himself out of the very sheep, how much more ought those to contend to death for the truth, and even to blood against sin,…” — editor's note: Chap. x. 18, 11.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“Eran.—Have you not heard the Lord saying “I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.…I lay it down of myself that I might take it again.”” — editor's note: John x. 18, 17
Read the whole comment““‘No man taketh it from me.…I have power to lay it down and I have power to take it again.’” — editor's note: John x. 18
Read the whole comment“And the Lord Himself in the holy Gospels at one time says “I have power to lay down my life and I have power to take it again, no man taketh it from me but I lay it down of myself;” “That I may take it again.”” — editor's note: John x. 18, 17. Observe the inversion and inexactitude.
Read the whole comment“No man taketh it from me.”” — editor's note: John x. 18varied.
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Ambrose of Milan
“No man taketh it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself.”” — editor's note: S. John x. 11, 17, 18.
Read the whole comment“This commandment have I received of My Father.”” — editor's note: S. John x. 18.
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John Chrysostom
“No man taketh it from Me, I lay it down of Myself.” ( John x. 18.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For, “I have power,” He says, “to lay down My life; and I have power to take it again.” ( John x. 18.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“And again, Christ Himself in another place saith, “I have power to lay down My life, and I have power to take it again”: and, “No man taketh it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself.” ( c. x. 18.)” — the author cites it
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Read the whole comment“When speaking of His death, Christ saith, “I have power to lay down My life” ( c. x. 18 ), and then He uttereth no lowly word; therefore at the Passion they attribute to Him much that is human, to show the reality of the Dispensation.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For He had said to them, “I have power to lay down My life, and I have power to take it again”: and, “No man taketh it from Me.” ( c. x. 18.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Therefore also He said, “I have power to lay down My life; and I have power to take it again.” ( c. x. 18.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“This is what He said, “I have power to lay down my life, and I have power to take it again,” and, “I lay it down of myself.”” — editor's note: John x. 18.
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Jerome
“And lower down: “no soul which has descended into a human body has borne upon it so true an impress of its previous character as Christ’s soul of which He says: ‘no man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself.’”” — editor's note: Joh. x. 18.
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Hilary of Poitiers
“This command have I received from the Father: and again, when asked to shew a sign concerning Himself, that they might believe in Him, He says of the Temple of His body, Destroy this Temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” — editor's note: St. John x. 17, 18.
Read the whole comment“But the Only-begotten God, Who had the power of laying down His life, and of taking it up again, after the drought of vinegar, having borne witness that His work of human suffering was finished, in order to accomplish in Himself the mystery of death, bowed His head and gave up His Spirit.” — editor's note: St. John x. 18.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“For when crucified, the office of the executioner being forestalled, He Himself of His own will yielded up His spirit, and on the third day freely rose again from the dead.” — editor's note: [John x. 18. See Pearson, Creed, art. v. p. 424.]
Read the whole comment“For this commandment I have received from my Father.”” — editor's note: John x. 18.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…such as “My God and your God,” or greater, or created, or made, or sanctified; Add, if you like, Servant and Obedient and Gave and Learnt, and was commanded, was sent, can do nothing of Himself, either say, or judge, or give, or will.” — editor's note: John x. 18; xiv. 31.
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