<p>12:48- see on Lk. 14:18; Jn. 3:13.<br /><i>He that rejects me and receives not my sayings has one that judges him. The word that I spoke, the same shall judge him in the last day</i>- Our conscience is not going to jump out of us and stand and judge us at the day of judgment. There is one thing that will judge us, the word of the Lord (Jn. 12:48), not how far we have lived according to our conscience. They crucified Him because they rejected the words He spoke from God (Jn. 12:48). The language of rejection is used both about the Jews' crucifixion of Christ (Lk. 17:25; Mk. 12:10) and their rejection of His words. Thus Heb. 6:5,6;10:28,29 connect despising the word with crucifying Christ afresh. As the prologue explains, He was the word made flesh. To not receive His sayings <i>rhema</i> meant that His <i>logos</i> &quot;word&quot; would judge them. His teachings had an essential <i>logos</i> to them. And that singular word is spoken of in :49 and :50 as God's singular &quot;commandment&quot;- the offer of eternal life in His Son (see on :50).</p>