“This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”
-John 15:12-13 KJV
No one realized that Jesus was going to follow through and lay down His life for them. His students became His friends and the loss they felt must have been intensely personal.
Jesus asks us to have the same commitment to our friends. He asks us to love so deeply that sacrifice is as natural as breathing.
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