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Selected Verse: John 8:46 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Joh 8:46 |
King James |
Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| Which of you convinceth me of sin--"Convicteth," bringeth home a charge of sin. Glorious dilemma! "Convict Me of sin, and reject Me: If not, why stand ye out against My claims?" Of course, they could only be supposed to impeach His life; but in One who had already passed through unparalleled complications, and had continually to deal with friends and foes of every sort and degree, such a challenge thrown wide among His bitterest enemies, can amount to nothing short of a claim to absolute sinlessness. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
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 that I am guilty of sin?
Of sin - The word "sin" here evidently means "error, falsehood, or imposture." It stands opposed to truth. The argument of the Saviour is this: A doctrine might be rejected if it could be proved that he that delivered it was an impostor; but as you cannot prove this of me, you are bound to receive my words. |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
sins
Sin
(See Scofield) - (Rom 3:23). |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Convinceth (ἐλέγχει)
See on Joh 3:20. Rev., convicteth.
Sin (ἁμαρτίας)
Not fault or error, but sin in general, as everywhere in the New Testament.
The truth (ἀλήθειαν)
Without the article, and therefore not the whole truth, but that which is true as to any part of divine revelation. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| 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? |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
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 guilty of any fault? You have maliciously watched all my steps; have you seen the smallest matter to reprove, in any part of my conduct?
But it is probable that ἁμαρτια, sin, is put here in opposition to αληθεια, truth, in the same verse, and then it should be rendered falsehood. The very best Greek writers use the word in the same sense: this, Kypke proves by quotations from Polybius, Lucian, Dionysius Halicarnassensis, Plutarch, Thucydides, and Hippocrates. Raphelius adds a pertinent quotation from Herodotus, and shows that the purest Latin writers have used the word peccatum, sin, in the sense of error or falsehood. See the note on Gen 13:13. |
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.