John 12:47

47 And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

Ver. 47. I judge him not ] viz. While I am here on earth. I sustain another person now, that men may come apace to me without fear. Some ancient heretics held, that God in the time of the law was a severe judge; and now, in the days of the gospel, he was all made of mercy and mildness. But the apostle saith somewhat otherwise, Hebrews 2:1-3 . God is more peremptory in his judgments now than ever of old. And, John 12:29 , he telleth us that even our God also, as well as the God of the Jews, "is a consuming fire."