Verses 46-47
Obviously many of Jesus’ critics thought He was guilty of committing sin (cf. John 5:18). Jesus asked if any of them could prove Him guilty (cf. John 18:23). This was one of Jesus’ clearest claims to being God. Not one of His critics could prove Him guilty because He was not guilty. No mere mortal could risk making such an offer as Jesus did here.
The Qu’ran does not say that Jesus was sinless, but Muslims believe that He was sinless because the Qu’ran never says He sinned. They believe He was a sinless man, but not God.
"The perfect holiness of Christ is in this passage demonstrated, not by the silence of the Jews, who might have ignored the sins of their questioner, but by the assurance with which His direct consciousness of the purity of His whole life is in this question affirmed." [Note: Godet, 2:350.]
Jesus again claimed that His hearers did not accept His words because they did not belong to God.
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