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Jan 4, 2022 · The reception of the Holy Spirit in Acts 2:4, then, was the baptism of the Holy Spirit, which resulted in the disciples being indwelt by the Holy Spirit permanently (Romans 8:9; 1 Corinthians 12:13). The other view is that Jesus’ breathing on the disciples in John 20:22 did not impart the Holy Spirit at that time; rather, the breathing was a promise—an anticipation of the coming Pentecost.
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We don’t know how much the apostles understood of the Holy Spirit’s nature in the moment Jesus breathed on them, but they would soon come to understand that the Spirit was also their Lord and their God. He was not merely a vague emanation of the presence of God; the Breath of God was not like the breath of humans. The Breath was not an it but a he....
What Jesus revealed to his apostles when he came was that the one God (Mark 12:29) exists in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19). The fact that the apostles fully embraced the Spirit’s personhood is clearly seen in how they speak of him in the New Testament. As my colleague, David Mathis, has so helpfully catalogued, These a...
This is why Jesus said, “It is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you” (John 16:7). I’ve offered an explanation elsewherewhy the Helper’s coming necessitated Jesus’s absence. But the great advantage to us of the Helper’s coming is that in him we are given the unspeakable gift of experiencing God i...
Whenever we speak of the nature of the Trinity, or any of the distinct persons, we are way over our heads. We are attempting to put words to things too wonderful for us. The best Christian minds spent the better part of five centuries defending, clarifying, and codifying for the rest of us the great mystery revealed in Scripture of the divine unity...
Jun 11, 2015 · 3. I always tried to visualize the moment when, after Resurrection, Jesus gave Holy Spirit to Apostles: So Jesus said to them again, "Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you." And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if ...
This passage indicates (A) that Jesus had to go to the Father in order for the Spirit to come, and (B) that Jesus would "send" the Spirit after He went. Jesus went to the Father in Acts 1:9-11. The A group might argue that Jesus could have gone to the Father between His crucifiction and John 20, but John 20:17 seems to say otherwise.
May 10, 2015 · In all probability, Jesus was giving His disciples a symbolic and memorable introduction to the Spirit, Who was to come upon them later. This moment was a demonstration of what Jesus would do at Pentecost after He returned to the Father. Breath is often a picture of the Spirit (in fact, the Hebrew word for Spirit is also the word for breath ...
Dec 8, 2018 · So, Jesus breathed on the disciples and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.” The word breathed, although in two different Greek words, appears just four times in the gospels. All are an action of Jesus. All are connected to the Holy Spirit. Mark 15:37 says, “And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his last.”
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The apostles receiving the Holy Spirit as Jesus breathed on them will take them through until they are filled with Him fifty days later. Why does Jesus "breathe" (John 20:22) on them all of a sudden? God breathing on those who belong to Him to spiritually awaken and empower them is nothing new: "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ...
