John 12:47 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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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.

John 12:47 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 3:17
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
John 12:48
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.
John 8:15-16
Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man. …
1 Timothy 1:15-16
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. …
Luke 19:10
For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

Topics

Atheism Disbelief Godlessness Impenitence Infidelity Jesus, the Christ Scoffing Skepticism

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 publ…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 47)

44-50. Jesus cried--in a loud tone, and with peculiar solemnity. (Compare Joh 7:37). and said, He that believeth on me, &c.--This seems to be a supplementary record of some weighty proclamations, for which there had been found no natural place before, and introduced here as a sort of summary and winding up of His whole testimony.