John 12:40-50 ▼

40 “He has blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart, that they might not see with the eyes, and understand with the heart, and turn, and I might heal them”;

41 Isaiah said these things when he saw His glory, and spoke of Him.

42 Still, however, out of the rulers many also believed in Him, but because of the Pharisees they were not confessing, that they might not be put out of the synagogue,

43 for they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.

44 And Jesus cried and said, “He who is believing in Me, does not believe in Me, but in Him who sent Me;

45 and He who is beholding Me, beholds Him who sent Me;

46 I—light to the world—have come, that everyone who is believing in Me may not remain in the darkness;

47 and if anyone may hear My sayings, and not believe, I do not judge him, for I did not come that I might judge the world, but that I might save the world.

48 He who is rejecting Me, and not receiving My sayings, has one who is judging him, the word that I spoke, that will judge him in the last day,

49 because I did not speak from Myself, but the Father who sent Me, He gave Me a command, what I may say, and what I may speak,

50 and I have known that His command is continuous life; what, therefore, I speak, according as the Father has said to Me, so I speak.”