John 8:46 Commentary and Bible Study

The word translated ‘convinceth’ means accuses me or even better convicts me. Who can prove a single sin against me, says the Lord. He has used this argument before in verse 29 – ‘He that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.’ He says, ‘Who can find any sin in me?’ It is like a challenge – a very open challenge. You look at my miracles – they are openly done. There is no opportunity of fraud, or trickery. They are free – I make no money from them, I take nothing for it – they are benevolent. They are entirely for the good of the people – everyone of them gives a positive benefit, be it healing, or something else. And how numerous and bountiful they are; you cannot say, ‘Well, He can do miracles, but he is mean with them.’ There were places where he healed everybody, and he certainly healed anyone who came to Him. ‘Have I ever misled you by claiming to do something that I could not do, setting out to do something which I failed in? Have I ever uttered a word which you can find fault with, in disagreement with scripture? Have I ever taught for my own benefit? Am I anything like the scribes and the Pharisees, and the prevailing clergy? There isn’t a single sin in my manner, my deportment, my words.’ He could say it to them. ‘So why don’t you believe in me?’ Christ is presented to them as the perfect Son of God – such a person as they have never seen – and yet so great is their prejudice, they still won’t believe in Him.