47And 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.
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For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man. …
This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. …
For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 44-50)We have here the honour Christ not assumed, but asserted, to himself, in the account he gave of his mission and his errand into the world. Probably this discourse was not at the same time with that before (for them he departed , John 12:36), but some time after, when he made another public appearance; and, as this evangelist records it, it was Christ’s farewell sermon to the Jews, and his last pub…
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