John 12:47
If anyone listens to my sayings and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
World English Bible
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In Context
46I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.
Cross References
Matthew 18:11For the Son of Man came to save that which was lost.
Luke 9:56For the Son of Man didn’t come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.” They went to another village.
John 3:17For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
John 8:15You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.
John 12:48He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke will judge him in the last day.
2 Peter 3:15Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you,
Matthew Henry on John 12:45-50
Christ's Last Discourse with the Jews. 44 Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. 45 And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me. 46 I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. 47 And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. 48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the… Read the whole commentary →