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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.
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Salvation Now, Judgment Later
Multiple commentators (Barnes, Spurgeon, Gill) emphasize that Jesus's statement, 'I judge him not,' refers to his first coming. This present age is a 'dispensation of pure mercy' where his role is that of a Savior. The role of Judge is reserved for a future time, at his second coming.
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John
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18th Century
Presbyterian
I judge him not (John 8:15). It was not his present purpose to condemn men. He would come to condemn the gui…
If any one (εαν τις). Third-class condition with εαν and first aorist active subjunctive (ακουση) of ακουω and same form (φυλαξη) …
19th Century
Anglican
And if any man hear my words, and believe not.—The better reading is, and keep them not. (Compare, for the words…
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Baptist
Jesus cried and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me. And he that seeth me seeth him that sent me. I am …
Judgment on unbelief is not arbitrary but inevitable. The message of Christ will become the condemnation in the last days of any who refuse it, sin…
16th Century
Protestant
If any man hear my words. After speaking about his grace and exhorting his disciples to steady faith, he now begins to strike the rebellio…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And if any man hear my words and believe not Men may hear the Gospel of Christ, and not understand it; and they may …
Our Lord publicly proclaimed that everyone who believed on him, as his true disciple, did not believe on him only, but on the Father who sent h…
13th Century
Catholic
Previously, the Evangelist described the failure of those who did not believe at all. Here he explains the failure of those who believed in secret …
