“As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.” – John 15:9

Jesus says that He loves us in the same way–to the same depth and with the same quality–as God the Father loved Jesus Himself. It is easy to pass this over.

The Father loves Jesus because Jesus is His son. Every time the Father looks at His Son He sees something incredible: Himself. That’s why He said of Jesus at His baptism, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.” God the Father loves Jesus with a fatherly love that is incomparable to any other love known in history or creation.

Then Jesus says He loves us with that very same love. He loves us not because we deserve it, but because of His capacity to give it. Jesus capacity for love is infinite because He has received the infinite love from His Father–the same Father with which Jesus shares His divine nature.

Jesus received an infinite love from an infinite Father and in turn showers us with an infinite love from an infinite savior.