John 10:15

John 10:15

13 The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep.

14 I am the good shepherd; and ^aI know My sheep, and ^bam known by My own.

15 ^aAs the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; ^band I lay down My life for the sheep.

16 And ^aother sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; ^band there will be one flock and one shepherd.

17 “Therefore My Father ^aloves Me, ^bbecause I lay down My life that I may take it again.

18 No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I ^ahave power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. ^bThis command I have received from My Father.”

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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And I know the Father (kagw ginwskw ton patera). Hence he is qualified to reveal the Father (John 1:18). The comparison of the mutually reciprocal knowledge between the Father and the Son illustrates what he has just said, though it stands above all else (Matthew 11:27; Luke 10:22; John 17:21-26). We cannot claim such perfect knowledge of the Good Shepherd as exists between the Father and the Son and yet the real sheep do know the Shepherd's voice and do love to follow his leadership here and now in spite of thieves, robbers, wolves, hirelings.

And I lay down my life for the sheep (kai thn yuxhn mou tiqhmi uper twn probatwn). This he had said in verse John 10:11, but he repeats it now for clearness. This he does not just as an example for the sheep and for under-shepherds, but primarily to save the sheep from the wolves, the thieves and robbers.

**Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 10:15:**

John 10:1
John 10:17
John 20:21
1 John 3:16

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