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Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
John 16:8
He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of
judgment. The Revised Version more correctly renders, "Will convict
the world in respect of sin". There are three points concerning which
the world would be convicted, concerning sin, righteousness, and
judgment. The Holy Spirit would effect these important results through
some means. If we would understand the methods we have only to turn
over to the fulfillment of these predictions recorded in the Acts of
the Apostles. In Acts 2:38, the Holy Spirit fell upon eleven apostles
and they spoke as "the Spirit gave them utterance" (Acts 2:4). The
words that they spoke were the words of the Holy Spirit. In the record
of what was said by the mouth of Peter, we find that the Spirit
convicted (1) of sin, in that those who heard had rejected the Lord of
life and glory; (2) of righteousness, in that it was demonstrated by
the manifestations of that hour that God had exalted the Lord whom they
had condemned to his own right hand; (3) of judgment, in that they were
assured of the "wrath to come" (Matthew 3:7 Lu 3:7 1Th 1:10), and warned
to "save themselves from this untoward generation" (Acts 2:40).
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