Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
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Gill's Exposition
Therefore doth my Father love me,.... Christ was the object of his Father's love from all eternity, and was loved by him on various accounts; first and chiefly, as his own Son, of the same nature with…
Barnes' Notes
I lay down my life - I give myself to die for my people, in Jewish and pagan lands. I offer myself a sacrifice to show the willingness of my Father to save them; to provide an atonement, and thus to…
Adam Clarke
Therefore doth my Father love me - As I shall be shortly crucified by you, do not imagine that I am abandoned by my heavenly Father, and therefore fall thus into your hands. The Father loveth me…
It is not certain whether this discourse was at the feast of dedication in the winter (spoken of Joh 10:22), which may be taken as the date, not only of what follows, but of what goes before (that…
Cambridge Bible
Therefore Better, On this account, or, For this cause (Joh 12:18; Joh 12:27). See on Joh 7:22 and Joh 8:47, and comp. Joh 5:16; Joh 5:18; Joh 6:65. The Father's love for the incarnate Son is…
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