Quotes About Sacrifice

This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your fathers, who ate the manna and died, the one who eats this bread will live forever.”

From that time on many of His disciples turned back and no longer walked with Him.

Jesus answered them, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!”

He was speaking about Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. For although Judas was one of the Twelve, he was later to betray Jesus.

So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own, but speak exactly what the Father has taught Me.

But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham never did such a thing.

I do not seek My own glory. There is One who seeks it, and He is the Judge.

Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see My day. He saw it and was glad.”

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

The hired hand is not the shepherd, and the sheep are not his own. When he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf pounces on them and scatters the flock.

The man runs away because he is a hired servant and is unconcerned for the sheep.

just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father. And I lay down My life for the sheep.

The reason the Father loves Me is that I lay down My life in order to take it up again.

No 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 charge I have received from My Father.”

At this, the Jews again picked up stones to stone Him.

But Jesus responded, “I have shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these do you stone Me?”

(Mary, whose brother Lazarus was sick, was to anoint the Lord with perfume and wipe His feet with her hair.)

“Rabbi,” they replied, “the Jews just tried to stone You, and You are going back there?”

Then Thomas called Didymus said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, so that we may die with Him.”

You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.”

Caiaphas did not say this on his own. Instead, as high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus would die for the nation,

So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.

Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem to purify themselves before the Passover.

Then Mary took about a pint of expensive perfume, made of pure nard, and she anointed Jesusí feet and wiped them with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.