John 12:42-50

42 Nevertheless, ¹many even of the authorities believed in him, but ²for fear of the Pharisees they did not ³confess it, so that they would not be ⁴put out of the synagogue;

43 ⁵for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.

Jesus Came to Save the World

44 And Jesus cried out and said, ⁶"Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but ⁷in him who sent me.

45 And ⁸whoever ⁹sees me sees him who sent me.

46 ¹⁰I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.

47 If anyone ¹¹hears my words and does not keep them, ¹²I do not judge him; for ¹³I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.

48 ¹⁴The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; ¹⁵the word that I have spoken will judge him ¹⁶on the last day.

49 For ¹⁷I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father ¹⁸who sent me has himself given me ¹⁹a commandment--what to say and what to speak.

50 And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me."

Cross References

• 1. John 3:1; [John 7:48]
• 2. See John 7:13
• 3. See John 9:22
• 4. See John 9:22
• 5. John 5:44
• 6. [John 13:20]; See Matthew 10:40
• 7. John 14:1; [John 5:24; 1 Peter 1:21]
• 8. John 14:9
• 9. John 6:40
• 10. ver. 35, 36; See John 1:4, 5, 9; John 8:12
• 11. [John 3:36]
• 12. John 8:15
• 13. See John 3:17; John 4:42
• 14. Luke 10:16
• 15. Deuteronomy 18:18, 19
• 16. [Romans 2:16]
• 17. See John 5:19, 30
• 18. See John 3:17
• 19. John 15:10