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Greek Lessons
- The Law That Sets Free: A Grammar of Liberation in Romans 8:2
- Moved to Speak: Temporal Setting and Genitive Absolute in Mark 8:1
- The Hour Had Not Yet Come: Divine Timing and Aorist Action in John 7:30
- Because of This Word: Perfect Tense and Power at a Distance
- The Greatest and the Least: Superlative Contrast and Kingdom Inversion in Luke 7:28
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Tag Archives: John 16:8
When He Comes: Future Conviction and the Work of the Spirit in John 16:8
Καὶ ἐλθὼν ἐκεῖνος ἐλέγξει τὸν κόσμον περὶ ἁμαρτίας καὶ περὶ δικαιοσύνης καὶ περὶ κρίσεως. (John 16:8)
The Spirit’s Mission: Conviction in Three Dimensions
John 16:8 captures a profound promise from Jesus about the coming of the Paraclete — the Holy Spirit. His role is not merely to comfort or remind, but to confront. The verse is syntactically simple, yet theologically loaded. It features a temporal aorist participle, a future active verb, and a triple prepositional phrase with the genitive. These features together structure the Spirit’s mission in the world: to expose, to convict, and to clarify what humanity misunderstands about sin, righteousness, and judgment.… Learn Koine Greek