12:46. I am come, a light into the world, that whosoever believeth in me may not remain in darkness.
12:47. And if any man hear my words and keep them not, I do not judge him for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
12:48. He that despiseth me and receiveth not my words hath one that judgeth him. The word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
12:49. For I have not spoken of myself: but the Father who sent me, he gave me commandment what I should say and what I should speak.
12:50. And I know that his commandment is life everlasting. The things therefore that I speak, even as the Father said unto me, so do I speak.
John Chapter 13
Christ washes his disciples’ feet. The treason of Judas. The new commandment of love.
13:1. Before the festival day of the pasch, Jesus knowing that his hour was come, that he should pass out of this world to the Father: having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
Before the festival day of the pasch.... This was the fourth and last pasch of the ministry of Christ, and according to the common computation, was in the thirty-third year of our Lord: and in the year of the world 4036. Some chronologers are of opinion that our Saviour suffered in the thirty-seventh year of his age: but these different opinions on this subject are of no consequence.
13:2. And when supper was done (the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him),