JMNT(i)
45 "and the person continually gazing at and contemplatively watching Me is continuously looking upon (viewing and contemplating; watching)
the One sending Me.
46 "I, Myself a Light, have come into, and am now within, the world (the organized system of religion, culture and government; the ordered and adorned arrangement; or: secular society; or: the cosmos, or universe),
to the end that everyone (all people; all) – [
each]
one habitually trusting and progressively believing into Me – can not (should not; may not; would not)
remain (abide; dwell)
within the midst of the Darkness, or in union with dim shadiness or obscurity. [note: darkness is perhaps a figure for their religious system, or for the world that does not know what God is really like, or for the Night, that period before the coming of the Day]
47 "And yet, if anyone can listen to and would hear [implying: obey]
results of the flow of My sayings and declarations (the gush-effects said by Me)
and yet can not (may not; should not)
keep (guard; maintain; watch-over and protect) [them? Himself?],
I, Myself, have no habit of separating him so as to make a distinction with him, or to evaluate or be judging him. For I did not come to the end that I should (could; would)
constantly separate, evaluate, make distinctions and be judging the world (the System; secular society; the arranged aggregate of humans),
but to the contrary, to the end that I could, and will [note: verb form is both a subjunctive aorist, and a future]
progressively save the world (restore the universe to its original state and condition; or: make the ordered System healthy and whole; rescue and deliver the ordered and adorned arrangement of religion, culture and secular society; or: heal the aggregate of mankind). [
cf chapter 3:16]