John frames the 24 hour period (“Passion Day”), the final day of Jesus’ life, in terms of His love. John suggests three adjectives that describe the Lord’s love for His own: sacrificial, deliberate, and consistent. In this study of this momentous verse of John, we consider the first of these three attributes of Christ’s love. He loved His own as the Passover Lamb which was sacrificed to propitiate their sins. Jesus loved us as the sacrificial lamb.