Is This True? — Andrew Forrest

John 15:12-17

12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. 17 These things I command you, so that you will love one another.

Jesus has already taught that the good shepherd lays down his life for his sheep (see John 10:11). Here, He expands on that idea and tells the disciples that He is laying down His life for them, and so that they—His friends—ought to be prepared to do the same.

QUESTION OF THE DAY
Do you think what Jesus says is true? Is giving your life for another person the highest form of love?