Truth Exposed 45 The Light of Judgement, John12:44-50. (391)

First, a recap of the chapter leading to the handful of verses that John includes to wrap it up.

Jesus enjoyed a private dinner with Lazarus, Martha and Mary. Shortly, the triumphal entry took place. A crowd of Greek Jews, in town for the Passover, went to see Lazarus.
The curiosity seekers found out the man who was recently raised from the dead had a more important guest, Jesus.

Approaching Philip and Andrew, they won an audience with the Messiah. He openly taught them. They seemed to accept the fact that he was the Messiah. God even made his approval known with a booming voice. But they had trouble understanding his need to die and be lifted up.

Jesus departed, but John includes a few extra verses. Did Jesus also teach them to these Greeks? In following cross references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, it is very clear that Jesus often included these concepts in his ministry. The claims were no strangers to the gospel and New Testament writers.

John 12:44-50

44 And Jesus cried out and said, “He who believes in Me, does not believe in Me but in Him who sent Me.

John 7:28 Then Jesus cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know Me and know where I am from; and I have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me is true, whom you do not know.

John 11:43 When He had said these things, He cried out with a loud voice,
“Lazarus, come forth.”

He who believes in Me.
John 13:20 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.”

Matthew 10:40 “He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.

Mark 9:37 “Whoever receives one child like this in My name receives Me; and whoever receives Me does not receive Me, but Him who sent Me.”

45 “He who sees Me sees the One who sent Me.

John 14:9,10
9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been so long with you, and yet you have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; how can you say, `Show us the Father´?
10 “Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works.

John 15:24 “If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well.

2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who said, “Light shall shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

Colossians 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

Hebrews 1:3 And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

46 “I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness.

John 12:35,36
35 So Jesus said to them, “For a little while longer the Light is among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you; he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes.
36 “While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become sons of Light.” These things Jesus spoke, and He went away and hid Himself from them.

John 1:4,5
4 In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men.
5 The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

John 3:19 “This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.

John 8:12 Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, “I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.”

John 9:5,39
5 “While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world.”
39 And Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may become blind.”

Matthew 4:16 “THE PEOPLE WHO WERE SITTING IN DARKNESS SAW A GREAT LIGHT, AND THOSE WHO WERE SITTING IN THE LAND AND SHADOW OF DEATH, UPON THEM A LIGHT DAWNED.”

abide (remain) in darkness.
Isaiah 42:7,15
7 To open blind eyes, to bring out prisoners from the dungeon and those who dwell in darkness from the prison.
15 “I will lay waste the mountains and hills and wither all their vegetation; I will make the rivers into coastlands and dry up the ponds.

Ephesians 5:14For this reason it says, “Awake, sleeper, and arise from the dead, And Christ will shine on you.”

47 “If anyone hears My sayings and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

I do not judge him.
John 5:45 “Do not think that I will accuse you before the father; the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have set your hope.

John 8:15,16,26
15 “You judge according to the flesh; I am not judging anyone.
16 “But even if I do judge, my judgment is true; for I am not alone in it, but I and the father who sent Me.
26 “I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you, but He who sent Me is true; and the things which I heard from Him, these I speak to the world.”

for I did not come to judge the world.
John 3:17 “For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

Matthew 18:11 “For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost.

Matthew 20:28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

Luke 9:56 for the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.” And they went on to another village.

Luke 19:10 “For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

1 Timothy 1:15,16
15 It is a trustworthy statement, deserving full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost of all.
16 Yet for this reason I found mercy, so that in me as the foremost, Jesus Christ might demonstrate His perfect patience as an example for those who would believe in Him for eternal life.

48 “He who rejects Me and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day.

He who rejects (Rejected me).
Deuteronomy 18:19
It shall come about that whoever will not listen to My words which he shall speak in My name, I Myself will require it of him.

1 Samuel 8:7 The LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in regard to all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me from being king over them.

Isaiah 53:3 He was despised and forsaken of men, A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; And like one from whom men hide their face He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.

Matthew 21:42 Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, `THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THIS BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER stone; THIS CAME ABOUT FROM THE LORD, AND IT IS MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES´?

Mark 8:31 And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

Mark 12:10 “Have you not even read this Scripture: `THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED; THIS BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER stone;

Luke 7:30 But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected God’s purpose for themselves, not having been baptized by John.

Luke 9:22,26
22 saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed and be raised up on the third day.”
26 “For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when He comes in His glory, and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.

Luke 10:16 “The one who listens to you listens to Me, and the one who rejects you rejects Me; and he who rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me.”

Luke 17:25 “But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

Luke 20:17 But Jesus looked at them and said, “What then is this that is written: `THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS REJECTED, THIS BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER stone´?

the word I spoke.
John 3:17-20
17 “For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.
18 “He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 “This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.
20 “For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.

Mark 16:16 “He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.

what will judge him at the last day.
John 11:24 Martha said to Him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day.”

Matthew 25:31 “But when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne.

Romans 2:16 on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus.

Hebrews 9:27,28
27 And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment,
28 so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time for salvation without reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.

49 “For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak.

John 3:11,32
11 “Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know and testify of what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony.
32 “What He has seen and heard, of that He testifies; and no one receives His testimony.

John 5:30 “I can do nothing on My own initiative. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

John 6:38-40
38 “For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
39 “This is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He has given Me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day.
40 “For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.”

John 8:26,42
26 “I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you, but He who sent Me is true; and the things which I heard from Him, these I speak to the world.”
42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me,
for I proceeded forth and have come from God, for I have not even come on My own initiative, but He sent Me.

John 14:10
“Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works.

John 15:15 “No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.

John 17:8 for the words which You gave Me I have given to them; and they received them and truly understood that I came forth from You, and they believed that You sent Me.

50 “I know that His commandment is eternal life; therefore, the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me.”

His commandment is eternal.
John 6:63,68
63 “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
68 Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have words of eternal life.

John 17:3 “This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

John 20:31 but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name.

1 John 3:23,24
23 This is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us.
24 The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us.

1 John 5:11-13,20
11 And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
12 He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.
13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.
20 And we know that the Son of God has come, and has given us understanding so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.