Justin Edwards' Family Bible NT (1851)
John 8:46
Convinceth me of sin; convicteth me of falsehood, or any thing wrong.
Convinceth me of sin; convicteth me of falsehood, or any thing wrong.
Verse 46. _WHICH OF YOU CONVINCETH ME OF SIN?_] Do you pretend to reject the truths which I announce, because my life does not correspond to the doctrines I have taught? But can any of you prove me gu...
WHICH OF YOU CONVINCETH ME? - To convince, with us, means to satisfy a man’s own mind of the truth of anything; but this is not its meaning here. It rather means to convict. Which of you can prove tha...
CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The Woman Taken in Adultery. (John 8:1 .)_ 2. The Light of the World. (John 8:12 .) 3. His Testimony Concerning Himself and the Father. (John 8:13 .) 4. His Solemn Declarations. ...
CONTROVERSY WITH THE JEWS WHO BELIEVED. Many are convinced by this appeal. The following section summarises the teaching by which Jesus tried to bring the more favourably disposed of the Jewish party...
WHICH OF YOU CONVINCETH ME OF SIN? He points to his sinless character as. proof that there can be no falsehood in his words. The argument is: "If. am not the Son of God, find out some human defect or...
"Who of you can convict me of sin? If I speak the truth, why do you not believe in me? He who is from God hears God's words. That is why you do not hear, because you are not from God." The Jews answer...
WRETCHEDNESS AND PITY (John 7:53 ; John 8:1-11)...
CONVINCETH. convicteth. Compare John 8:9; John 3:20; John 16:8 ("reprove")....
John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. The Work We here enter on the second portion of the first main division of the Gospel, thus subdivided: The Work (1) among _Jews_, (2) among _Samaritans_, (3) among _Galilean...
John 8:12 TO JOHN 9:41. Christ the Source of Truth and Light In John 8:12-46 the word -true" occurs six times, the word -truth" seven times....
_Which of you convinceth me of sin?_ Or, CONVICTETH _Me of sin_(see on John 3:20). Many rebuked Christ and laid sin to His charge: none brought sin home to His conscience. There is the majesty of Divi...
ΤΊΣ ἘΞ Ὑ. ἘΛΈΓΧΕΙ. _Which of you_ CONVICTETH _Me of sin_? See on John 3:20; John 16:8. For περὶ comp. John 10:33; 1 John 2:2. Many rebuked Christ and lai
13–59. A comparison of the discourses in Chapter s 5–8 shews how the conflict increases in intensity. In 5 and 6. Christ proceeds almost without interruption, and the Jews demur rather than contradict...
Ver 44. You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a...
_JESUS AND ABRAHAM -- JOHN 8:39-59:_ Jesus said these people wanted to kill Him for telling them the truth that God had given Him. The Jews claimed God as their father but they refused to obey Him. If...
ΈΛΈΓΧΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΈΛΈΓΧΩ (G1651) убеждать, доказывать, убеждать доказательствами....
DISCOURSE: 1656 UNBELIEF TRACED TO ITS SOURCE John 8:46. _If I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?_ ONE would reasonably suppose, that if Almighty God were to become a man, and to labour for the...
WHICH OF YOU CONVINCETH ME OF SIN?— _Can convict me of sin?_ Heylin. The only reason for refusing assent to a person is, either because he is not deserving of credit, or because what he asserts is imp...
SATAN'S CHILDREN _Text 8:41-47_ 41 Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God. 42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Fat...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 8:33-59 The passage for our present consideration continues and completes the portion studied in our last chapter. It brings before us Christ as the Light reveal...
Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? WHICH OF YOU CONVINCETH, [ elengchei (G1651) rather, 'convicteth'] me of sin?-or can bring home against Me a ch...
12-29 Nothing would so swiftly and surely prove the undoing of an impostor as the claim that he always pleases God. Of all living, only One has been able to stand such a severe test. In the mouth of a...
Christ argues from His sinlessness to His veracity. Since His enemies can find no fault with His life, they ought to believe His words. Christ's sinlessness is affirmed not only by Himself, but by His...
THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES CONTINUED. CHRIST THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD John 7:53 to John 8:11. The woman taken in adultery. All modern critics agree that this section is no original part of the Fourth Gosp...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 8 JESUS FORGIVES A WOMAN 8:1-11 V1 But Jesus walked to the place called the Hill of *Olives. V2 Early next morning, he...
WHICH OF YOU CONVINCETH ME OF SIN? — He appeals to their knowledge of His sinless life, as in John 8:29. He asserted His own knowledge of entire conformity to His Father’s will. It is an appeal that s...
CHAPTER 19 JESUS REJECTED IN JERUSALEM. “He said therefore again unto them, I go away, and ye shall seek Me, and shall die in your sin: whither I go, ye cannot come. The Jews therefore said, Will He...
τίς … ἁμαρτίας; Alford, who represents a number of interpreters, says: “The question is an appeal to His _sinlessness of life_, as evident to them all, as a pledge for His truthfulness of word”. Calvi...
_Discussion between Jesus and the Jews regarding their paternity_....
THE TEST OF SONSHIP John 8:39-47 Godly ancestors and parents will avail nothing, unless we are animated by their spirit and do their works. There were in the old world two families that ran in paral...
The end of chapter 7 is closely linked with this, in that after declaring "every man went to his own house," the writer said, "But Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives." Here we have the story of a re...
(14) Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? (14) Christ thoroughly executed the office that his Father gave him....
SATANIC PATERNITY OF THE UNREGENERATE John 8:37-47. _“I know that ye are the seed of Abraham; but you seek to kill Me, because My Word has no place in you.”_ How sad the condition of those preachers a...
VER. 46. To justify their distrust with respect to His _words_, it would be necessary that they should at least be able to accuse Him of some fault in His _actions;_ for holiness and truth are sisters...
“ _And because I say the truth to you, you believe me not._ 46. _Which of you can convict me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do you not believe me?_ 47. _He that is of God hears the words of God;...
4. “I AND YOU”: 8:30-59. Jesus, in His second discourse (John 8:12-20) attributed to Himself two modes of teaching: _testimony_, by which He reveals His origin, His mission, His work, and _judgment_,...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 30-50. 1. Whether the words of Jesus contained in these verses were spoken on the same day as those which precede (Meyer) or on the following day (Godet)...
Why do ye not understand my speech; even because ye cannot hear my word. (44) Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode...
The point at which we have arrived gives me an opportunity of saying a little on the beginning of this chapter, and the end of the last; for it is well known that many men, and, I am sorry to add, not...
_THE SINLESSNESS OF CHRIST_ ‘Jesus said, which of you convinceth Me of sin?’ John 8:46 It is well for us that we should once more assure ourselves of the supernatural claim of Christ. And the words...
46._Which of you? _This question proceeds from perfect confidence; for, knowing that they could not justly bring any reproach against him, he glories over his enemies, as having obtained a victory. An...
In chapter 8, as we have said, the word of Jesus is rejected; and, in chapter 9, His works. But there is much more than that. The personal glories of chapter 1 are reproduced and developed in all thes...
WHICH OF YOU CONVINCETH ME OF SIN?.... Of any immorality in life, or of any imposture, corruption, or deceit in doctrine. There were many of them that were forward enough to charge him with both scand...
Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? Ver. 46. _Which of you convinceth me of sin_] _q.d._ Have you anything against my life, that ye thus stiffly refus...
_Ye are of your father the devil_ Ye are the genuine children of Satan; _and the lusts_ Τας επιθυμιας, _the desires; of your father ye will do_ Namely, resolutely and obstinately, as the words, θελετε...
The true ancestry of the Jews:...
WHICH OF YOU CONVINCETH ME OF SIN? AND IF I SAY THE TRUTH, WHY DO YE NOT BELIEVE ME?...
A WOMAN CAUGHT IN ADULTERY (vs.1-11) While others went to their homes, the Lord spent the night in the mount of Olives, away from all the words and thoughts of men, in the calm of His Father's prese...
41-47 Satan prompts men to excesses by which they murder themselves and others, while what he puts into the mind tends to ruin men's souls. He is the great promoter of falsehood of every kind. He is...
If any of you can prove that I have spoken to you any thing that is false, and not consonant to the will of my Father, do it; but which of you is able to charge me with any such thing? If there be no...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Trallians and lived upon earth without sin. For says He, "Which of you convicteth me of sin? "[63] Origen de Principiis Book II Nay, the Lord Himself also said, "Which of...
John 8:46 Which G5101 of G1537 you G5216 convicts G1651 (G5719) Me G3165 of G4012 sin G266 And...
CHAPTER 8 JESUS - THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD AND THE ‘I AM' (JOHN 8:12). In this chapter Jesus is revealed as ‘the Light of the World'. This is a reminder of the one spoken of in the words of Isaiah, ‘the...
THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM AND THE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL (JOHN 8:31). Note how the argument is presented in stages as the case builds up against he Scribes and Pharisees. It had begun with the revelation...
“Which of you convicts me of sin?” What an amazing challenge. Jesus blatantly throws Himself open to His enemies. He knew that His recent life had been subjected to constant investigation and examinat...
‘If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? He who is of God, hears the words of God. The reason you do not hear them is because you are not of God'. So then He asked them why, if He was speaking...
The feast of Tabernacles is closed, and with it the great illumination of the temple-courts, of which the Jews were wont to boast in lofty terms. Starting from this, and from the fact that He is the t...
John 8:46. WHICH OF YOU CONVICTETH ME OF SIN? No charge of sin could any one of them bring home to Him, no responsive consciousness of sin could any one awaken in His breast. These words are implicitl...
WHICH OF YOU CONVICTETH ME OF SIN? (Τις εξ υμων ελεγχε με περ αμαριτασ;). See on John 3:20; John 16:8 (the work of the Holy Spirit) for ελεγχω for charge and proof. The use of αμαρτια as in John 1:2...
SINS SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
John 8:46 The Absolute Sinlessness of Christ I. The sinlessness of our Lord has been supposed to be compromised by the conditions of the development of His life as man sometimes by particular acts an...
We will read, from the Revised Version, two passages which record attempts made to kill our Lord before his time had come. You will see, from the sermon, why we read them. (See Luke 4:16) John 8:37....
John 8:31. _Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;_ For there were many, in Christ's day, coming to him for a while, and then...
Christ thus spake to his adversaries. John 8:29. _And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone: for I do always those things that please him._ Brethren, what Christ could say, I...
John 8:28. _Then said Jesus unto them;_ That is, to the Jews who were questioning and opposing him,- John 8:28. _When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am he, and that I do...
CONTENTS: The woman taken in adultery. Discourse after the feast on Jesus as Light of the world. Satan, the original liar and murderer, and the Satanic brotherhood. CHARACTERS: Jesus, adulterous woma...
John 8:1. _Jesus went to the mount of Olives,_ where it is probable he slept in some booth in the gardens; and returned early to the temple, to preach to the people, before the commencement of public...
WHICH ONE OF YOU CAN PROVE? Compare notes _on_ John 8:7-9. He points to his sinless life as proof there is nothing false in his words. They all knew he was a "holy man" (John 3:2)....
_I speak that which I have seen with My Father; and ye do that which ye have seen with your Father_ THE MARKS OF DIVINE AND DIABOLIC RELATIONSHIP Christ had admitted (John 8:37) that the Jews were t...
_Then said Jesus unto those Jews which believed on Him._ A GLORIOUS LIBERATOR I. FREEDOM PROFFERED. 1. Sin makes bondage (John 8:34; Matthew 6:24; Luke 16:13;...
VER. 37.. _know_, &c. By nature ye are Abraham's children, but in your deeds ye are degenerate. Your descent from Abraham will not therefore profit you. It will increase your damnation, for he will sa...
_Which of you_, &c. This is to anticipate an objection of the Jews. For they might say, "We do not believe thee, because thou art a violater of our law, in healing the sick on the Sabbath-day." Produc...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 8:13. They forgot His vindication of Himself (John 5:31). John 8:14. EVEN IF I BEAR RECORD, ETC.—Although He was content to let the Father witness of Him, still...
EXPOSITION Verses 7:53-8:11 (8) _The pericope adulterae. _(A)_ Excursus on the genuineness of _John 7:53-43__John 7:53-43. It is our duty to examine the various grounds on which this passage has been...
Now Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives. And early in the morning he came again to the temple (John 8:1-2), Now the feast is over, but Jesus is returning to the temple on the next day. and all of th...
1 Peter 2:22; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Hebrews 4:15; Hebrews 7:26; John
Convinceth [ε λ ε γ χ ε ι]. See on 3 20. Rev., convicteth. Sin [α μ α ρ τ ι α ς]. Not fault or error, but sin in general, as everywhere in the New Testament. The truth [α λ η θ ε ι α ν]. Without the...
Which of you convicteth me of sin? — And is not my life as unreprovable as my doctrine? Does not my whole behaviour confirm the truth of what I teach?...