Matthew Poole and continuators on John 10:18

18 No man taketh it from m[illegible: 1 letter], but I lay it down of my self: I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again . This commandment have I received of my Father .

No man taketh it from me by force, without my willing it, and consenting to it; the Iews and Pilate will take it from me, but not without my free and voluntary surrender of it; and this is that which we read, Act. 4.27, 28. For of a truth, against thy holy child Iesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilat, and the Gentiles, with the people of Israel, were gathered together, for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel had determined before to be done, &c. By which he asserteth his Divine power, and so comforteth his Disciples against the disturbances they were like to have from the sight of his Passion, at this time not many Months of. And this (saith he)

is the Will of my Father, that which my Father hath given me Commission to do, and for which he hath sent me into the World: And thus he declareth his Death to be a fulfilling of his Fathers purpose, and an act of Obedience to his Fathers Will; and indeed, in his Obedience in the thing, lay much of the vertue of his Death.

Marginal references: Chap. 2.19. Act. 2.24.; Chap. 2.19. Act. 2.24.