¹⁵ As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

¹⁷ Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.

¹⁸ No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

⁸ And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

² Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.