Discovery BoxJohn 12:47-50 
Context12:47 If anyone 1 hears my words and does not obey them, 2 I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world. 3 12:48 The one who rejects me and does not accept 4 my words has a judge; 5 the word 6 I have spoken will judge him at the last day. 12:49 For I have not spoken from my own authority, 7 but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me 8 what I should say and what I should speak. 12:50 And I know that his commandment is eternal life. 9 Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me.” 10
1 tn Grk “And if anyone”; the conjunction καί (kai, “and”) has been left untranslated here for improved English style.
2 tn Or “guard them,” “keep them.”
4 tn Or “does not receive.”
5 tn Grk “has one who judges him.”
6 tn Or “message.”
7 tn Grk “I have not spoken from myself.”
8 tn Grk “has given me commandment.”
9 tn Or “his commandment results in eternal life.”
10 tn Grk “The things I speak, just as the Father has spoken to me, thus I speak.”
