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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - John 10:15 - 10:15
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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.