Mat 16:25, Luk 17:33, Joh 12:25 | JFB | STEP | 25. For whosoever will save —is minded to save, or bent on saving. his life shall lose it, and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it —(See on ). "A suffering and dying Messiah liketh you ill; but what if His servants shall meet the same fate? They may not; but who follows Me must be prepared for the worst."

Matthew 16:25

25. For whosoever will save—is minded to save, or bent on saving.

his life shall lose it, and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it—(See on Mt 10:38,39). "A suffering and dying Messiah liketh you ill; but what if His servants shall meet the same fate? They may not; but who follows Me must be prepared for the worst."

Luke 17:33

33. Whosoever, &c.—(See on Lu 9:23-27).

John 12:25

25. He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal—(See on Lu 9:24). Did our Lord mean to exclude Himself from the operation of the great principle here expressed—self-renunciation, the law of self-preservation; and its converse, self-preservation, the law of self-destruction? On the contrary, as He became Man to exemplify this fundamental law of the Kingdom of God in its most sublime form, so the very utterance of it on this occasion served to sustain His own Spirit in the double prospect to which He had just alluded.