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17 For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again.

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but we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower[a] than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God[b] he might taste death for everyone.(A)

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  1. 2.9 Or who was made a little lower
  2. 2.9 Other ancient authorities read apart from God

18 No one takes[a] it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it up again. I have received this command from my Father.”

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  1. 10.18 Other ancient authorities read has taken

11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.(A)

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15 just as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for the sheep.

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As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.(A)

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He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,
    yet he did not open his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the slaughter
    and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,
    so he did not open his mouth.(A)
By a perversion of justice he was taken away.
    Who could have imagined his future?
For he was cut off from the land of the living,
    stricken for the transgression of my people.(B)
They made his grave with the wicked
    and his tomb[a] with the rich,[b]
although he had done no violence,
    and there was no deceit in his mouth.(C)

10 Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him with affliction.
When you make his life an offering for sin,[c]
    he shall see his offspring and shall prolong his days;
through him the will of the Lord shall prosper.(D)
11     Out of his anguish he shall see;
he shall find satisfaction through his knowledge.
    The righteous one,[d] my servant, shall make many righteous,
    and he shall bear their iniquities.(E)
12 Therefore I will allot him a portion with the great,
    and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,
because he poured out himself to death
    and was numbered with the transgressors,
yet he bore the sin of many
    and made intercession for the transgressors.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. 53.9 Q ms: MT and in his death
  2. 53.9 Cn: Heb with a rich person
  3. 53.10 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  4. 53.11 Or and he shall find satisfaction. Through his knowledge, the righteous one

I glorified you on earth by finishing the work that you gave me to do.(A) So now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had in your presence before the world existed.(B)

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The Servant, a Light to the Nations

42 Here is my servant, whom I uphold,
    my chosen, in whom my soul delights;
I have put my spirit upon him;
    he will bring forth justice to the nations.(A)

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24 Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.(A)

25 “Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you, and these know that you have sent me.(B) 26 I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them and I in them.”(C)

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25 Now a discussion about purification arose between John’s disciples and a Jew.[a]

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  1. 3.25 Other ancient authorities read the Jews

Israel’s Disobedience

21 The Lord was pleased, for the sake of his righteousness,
    to magnify his teaching and make it glorious.(A)

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