If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, it is not I who judge him; for I have not come to judge the world but to save the world.

He who does not love me does not obey my word; and what you hear me say is not my word but the word of the Father who sent me.

This started the report among the brotherhood that the said disciple was not to die. Jesus, however, did not say he was not to die; what he said was, "If I choose that he should survive till I come back, what does that matter to you?"