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Scott's Reference Library
John 10:11 through John 10:18 (NIV)
11“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the
sheep. 12The hired hand is not the shepherd who owns the sheep. So when he sees
the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the
flock and scatters it. 13The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares
nothing for the sheep.
14“I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me—15just as the
Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16I
have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They
too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd.
17The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to take it up
again. 18No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have
authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I
received from my Father.”
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 10-18
Christ is a good Shepherd; many who were not thieves, yet were careless in their
duty, and by their neglect the flock was much hurt. Bad principles are the root
of bad practices. The Lord Jesus knows whom he has chosen, and is sure of them;
they also know whom they have trusted, and are sure of Him. See here the grace
of Christ; since none could demand his life of him, he laid it down of himself
for our redemption. He offered himself to be the Saviour; Lo, I come. And the
necessity of our case calling for it, he offered himself for the Sacrifice. He
was both the offerer and the offering, so that his laying down his life was his
offering up himself. From hence it is plain, that he died in the place and stead
of men; to obtain their being set free from the punishment of sin, to obtain the
pardon of their sin; and that his death should obtain that pardon. Our Lord laid
not his life down for his doctrine, but for his sheep.