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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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