³¹ but he comes so that the world may learn that I love the Father and do exactly what my Father has commanded me.^(A)

“Come now; let us leave.

¹⁸ No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord.^(A) I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.”^(B)

³⁸ For I have come down from heaven^(A) not to do my will but to do the will^(B) of him who sent me.^(C)