Charles Spurgeon Commentary John 12:47

"And if any man hear my sayings, and keep them not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world." — John 12:47 (ASV)

And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

Under this present dispensation, it is not the time of judgment.

The Lord leaves you who are unbelievers to yourselves. He does not yet come to judge you; there is a second coming, when he will be both judge and witness, and condemner, of those who have rejected him; but at present, it is a dispensation of pure mercy.

He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him. There is a great God above who reckons this to be among the greatest of all human crimes, that they reject his Son.

We speak of unbelief very lightly, and there are some who trifle with it as if it had no moral quality at all, but God does not do so.