<p>12:50 <i>And I know that His commandment is everlasting life. The things therefore which I speak, even as the Father has said to me: So I speak- &quot;</i>The commandment&quot; is surely put for all that the Lord said and spoke (:49). It was His <i>logos </i>(see on :48). His words and person were an imperative to respond to; He was in Himself a command to be obeyed in following Him in total surrender. To believe in Him was the everlasting life. The commandment, the <i>logos</i>, was and is to believe in Him and receive everlasting life, in the sense of allowing Him to live in our lives. All He spoke was summed up in that. To refuse that eternal life meant therefore to remain in eternal death, and that would therefore be the outcome of the final judgment (:48).</p>