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John 20:22
And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost;
And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost;
Verse 22. _HE BREATHED ON_ THEM] Intimating, by this, that they were to be made _new_ men, in order to be properly qualified for the work to which he had called them; for in this breathing he evidentl...
HE BREATHED ON THEM - It was customary for the prophets to use some significant act to represent the nature of their message. See Jeremiah 13; Jeremiah 18, etc. In this case the act of breathing was u...
CHAPTER 20 _ 1. The Empty Sepulchre. (John 20:1 .)_ 2. The Risen One and Mary of Magdala. (John 20:11 .) 3. The Gathered Company and He in the midst. (John 20:19 .) 4. The Second Time. ...
THE COMING TO THE DISCIPLES. The first Christian Sunday is spent in Jerusalem, where the disciples are in hiding. The interpretation of Mark 14:50 as implying an immediate flight of the apostles to Ga...
BREATHED ON THEM, AND SAID, RECEIVE YE THE HOLY GHOST. Breath is the symbol of life. God breathes into man the breath of life (Genesis 2:7), and Christ breathed upon his apostles as. symbol of the imp...
Late on that day, the first day of the week, when for fear of the Jews the doors had been locked in the place where the disciples were, Jesus came and stood in the midst of them, and said: "Peace be t...
BEWILDERED LOVE (John 20:1-10)...
BREATHED ON. Greek. _emphusao._ Only here in N.T., but used in the Septuagint in Genesis 2:7 for the Hebrew word _naphah,_ to breathe, or blow with force. The same Lord who, as Jehovah Elohim, breathe...
_he breathed on them_ The very same Greek verb (here only in N.T.) is used by the LXX. in Genesis 2:7 (Wis 15:11) of breathing life into Adam. This Gospel of the new Creation looks back at its close,...
THE MANIFESTATION TO THE TEN AND OTHERS...
ἘΝΕΦΎΣΗΣΕΝ. The very same verb (here only in N.T.) is used by the LXX. in Genesis 2:7 (Wis 15:11) of breathing life into Adam. This Gospel of the new creation looks back at its close, as at its beginn...
Ver 19. Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for feel of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and says to...
_JESUS APPEARED TO HIS DISCIPLES BUT THOMAS IS ABSENT -- JOHN 20:19-23:_ The disciples gathered on the first day of the week. Fear of the Jewish leaders caused them to meet behind closed doors. Luke t...
ΈΝΕΦΎΣΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΜΦΥΣΆΩ (G1720) дуть. Это событие готовит их к Пятидесятнице (Hoskyns; Morris), ΛΆΒΕΤΕ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΛΑΜΒΆΝΩ (G2983) принимать....
DISCOURSE: 1731 INSPIRATION AND AUTHORITY OF THE APOSTLES John 20:21. _Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so I send you. And when he had said this, he b...
WHEN HE HAD SAID THIS, HE BREATHED ON THEM,— St. Luke, Luke 24:35 informs us, that the disciples from Emmaus told their brethren on this occasion, what things were done in the way. Among the rest_,_ n...
THE APPEARANCE TO TEN DISCIPLES _Text: John 20:19-25_ 19 When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of th...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 20:11-23 Below is an Analysis of our present passage:— Our Lord had triumphed o’er the grave, "as he said." Before the sun of this world had risen upon the thir...
And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: AND WHEN HE HAD SAID THIS, HE BREATHED ON THEM - a symbolical and expressive conveyance to them of t...
6 There is a blessed contrast between the resurrection of Lazarus and the vivification of our Lord. Lazarus saw corruption. Christ saw none. Lazarus was raised bound foot and hand with grave clothes a...
THE RESURRECTION 1-10. The Resurrection. Visits of Mary Magdalene, and of Peter and John to the tomb of Jesus. (For the Resurrection appearances see on the synoptics, especially on St. Matthew; for th...
JESUS APPEARS IN THE EVENING TO THE DISCIPLES: see Luke 24:36; (Mark 16:14). According to St. Mark, Jesus appeared 'to the eleven as they sat at meat.' St. John is more precise, noting the absence of...
BREATHED ON _them_] The word for 'breath' and 'spirit' is the same in Gk. By this action our Lord showed how closely the Holy Spirit is connected with His person, being in fact 'the spirit of Jesus.'...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 20 THE GRAVE IS EMPTY! 20:1-10 V1 On Sunday morning, Mary (who was from Magdala) went to the grave. It was very early a...
XXIII. _ THOMAS' TEST._ "When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the...
_Manifestations of the risen Lord to the disciples, first without Thomas, then with Thomas_....
THE RISEN CHRIST BRINGS PEACE John 20:19-25 Evidently our Lord was clothed in the spiritual body of which the Apostle speaks, not subject to the laws governing physical life. Twice He uttered the sal...
This is the story of a dark morning and a lost Master. The strange excitement of it all is evidenced by the fact that the three disciples named are all seen running. Mary ran to tell the disciples, an...
Receive ye the Holy Ghost. It was said, (John vii. 39.) that the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not glorified. The sense must need be, that the holy Spirit was not given in that solemn ma...
JESUS APPEARS TO THE APOSTLES SUNDAY NIGHT Luke 24:36-49; John 20:19-23. “ _Then_, _it being evening on that day_, _the first day of the week_, _and the doors being shut where the disciples were assem...
FIFTH PART: 20:1-29. THE RESURRECTION. The fourth part of the Gospel has shown us the Jewish people carrying _unbelief_ with reference to Jesus even to complete apostasy, and consummating this spirit...
1. The appearance of Jesus when the doors were shut (John 20:19; John 20:26) is a point which we are unable to explain. The evangelist has not stated the facts of the case with sufficient definiteness...
“ _Jesus therefore said to them again, Peace be to you! As the Father has sent me, even so I send you._ 22. _And, having said this, he breathed on them and says to them, Receive [the] Holy Spirit._ 23...
VER. 22. The _endowment_ in view of this sending. As there is properly only one mission, there is also only one _force_ for fulfilling it that of Jesus, which He communicates through His Spirit. The w...
II. THE FIRST APPEARANCE TO THE DISCIPLES: JOHN 20:19-23. The risen Lord advances by degrees in His manifestation of Himself. The appearance of Jesus to Mary Magdalene, prepared for by that of the ang...
Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her. (19) Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors...
In John 20:1-31 is the resurrection, and this in a remarkable light. No such outward circumstance is here as in Matthew, no soldiers trembling, no walk with disciples, but as ever the person of God's...
22._He breathed on them. _Not one of the sons of men is qualified for discharging so difficult an office, and, therefore, Christ prepares the Apostles for it by the grace of his Spirit. And, indeed, t...
In chapter 20, we have, in a summary of several of the leading facts among those which took place after the resurrection of Jesus, a picture of all the consequences of that great event, in immediate c...
AND WHEN HE HAD SAID THIS,.... That is, declared he sent them forth in like manner as his Father sent him: HE BREATHED ON THEM; in allusion to God's breathing the breath of life into man, at his crea...
And when he had said this, he breathed on _them_, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Ver. 22. _He breathed on them, and saith, &c._] Otherwise, who had been sufficient for these things?...
_Then said Jesus again, Peace be unto you_ This is the foundation of the mission of a true gospel minister; peace in his own soul, in consequence of his having received pardoning mercy from God throug...
RECEIVE YE THE HOLY GHOST; this was to fit them for their work. Jesus Christ, by his Spirit, will furnish his ministers for the discharge of all the duties to which he calls them; and they may at all...
THE GRAVE: OPEN AND EMPTY! (vs.1-10) Though others besides Mary of Magdala went together to the grave early on the first day of the week, yet in John she is singled out, a woman devoted, but incredu...
19-25 This was the first day of the week, and this day is afterwards often mentioned by the sacred writers; for it was evidently set apart as the Christian sabbath, in remembrance of Christ's resurre...
The apostles could not but be apprehensive how great a work their Lord had laid upon them, in sending them as his Father had sent him, to carry the gospel over the world; _Who_ (said Paul afterward) _...
Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenaeus And as He was the servant of God, so is He the Son of God, and Lord of the universe. And as He was spit upon ignominiously, so also did He breathe the Hol...
John 20:22 And G2532 said G2036 (G5631) this G5124 breathed G1720 (G5656) and G2532 said G3004 ...
JESUS APPEARS TO ALL THE APOSTLES APART FROM THOMAS (JOHN 20:19)....
‘And when He had said this He breathed on them, and says to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit”. Jesus now in a very real act of power endues the Apostles with the Holy Spirit. It is a travesty to suggest...
Mary Magdalene has carried to the disciples the tidings with which she was charged. We have now the first appearance to them of the Risen Lord....
John 20:22. AND WHEN HE HAD SAID THIS, HE BREATHED ON THEM, AND SAITH UNTO THEM, RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT. Not only did the Risen Lord thus send His disciples on their mission to the world, He gave the...
HE BREATHED ON THEM (ενεφυσησεν). First aorist active indicative of εμφυσαω, late verb, here only in N.T. though eleven times in the LXX and in the papyri. It was a symbolic art with the same word u...
John 20:21 The Christian Mission I. These words were addressed in the first instance to the apostles then present. But they are likewise addressed, and with no less force, to every one who finds joy...
John 20:19 _(with Mark 16:13; Luke 24:33)_ I. We should misinterpret the incidents of this evening meeting, we should mistake the simple, immediate and precise object which, in using them, our Lord h...
John 20:15 Next to the absence of all notice of our Lord's mother, few things are more remarkable in the narrative of the period after the resurrection, than the silence respecting John. I. John was...
John 20:19. _Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and sai...
John 20:18. _Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that he had spoken these things unto her._ She was a true woman one whom they had known well enough to be quite...
John 20:11. _But Mary stood without at the sepulcher weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulcher, and seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the othe...
CONTENTS: Resurrection of Christ. CHARACTERS: Mary Magdalene, Peter, John, two angels, Jesus, disciples, Thomas. CONCLUSION: He who gave His life as a ransom resumed His life again by the mighty pow...
John 20:2. _They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulchre._ After Mr. WEST had examined with all possible care every circumstance recorded of the resurrection, he in substance remarks, that John...
_Then the same day at evening_ THE FIRST LORD’S DAY EVENING I. THE ANXIOUS COMPANY. The twelve, with the exception of Judas and Thomas, were gathered and kept together by a community of interest in...
_Then saith Jesus unto them … as My Father hath sent Me, even so send I you_ THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE TWO MISSIONS Christ is the Arch-Missionary and the Arch-Apostle (Hebrews 3:1), at once bot...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 20:1 Chapter John 20:1 covers the aftermath of Jesus’ crucifixion and burial: the empty tomb, the risen Jesus’ encounter with Mary Magdalene, and Jesus’ appearances to his disciples...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 20:21 These verses contain the “Great Commission” (compare Matthew 28:16). They provide the conclusion of the entire Gospel’s presentation of Jesus as the one sent from the Father (s
"JESUS APPEARS TO THE DISCIPLES BEHIND LOCKED DOORS LUKE 24:36-43; JOHN 20:19-23; LUKE 24:36 And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace [_be_] unto yo...
_And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost._ Why did He breathe on them? (1.) To signify the nature of the Holy Spirit, as proceeding both from Him...
28-31 CHAPTER 20 VER. 1. _On the first day of the week._ Literally, of the Sabbath, the week being called the Sabbath, after its principal day, or the day of the Pasch. (see on Mat 28:1) _Mary Magda...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 20:19. EVENING OF THAT DAY.—_I.e._ the day on which our Lord rose from the dead.—WHEN THE DOORS WERE SHUT.—St. John notices this fact, not only to show how terror...
EXPOSITION JOHN 20:1 2. The complete glorification of Jesus in his resurrection. The record pauses for the awful day of that great sabbath, and resumes the marvelous recital when the greatest event i...
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to the gospel according to John, chapter 20. The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and she saw the stone was...
Acts 10:47; Acts 19:2; Acts 2:38; Acts 2:4; Acts 4:8;...
Breathed on them [ε ν ε φ υ σ η σ ε ν]. Only here in the New Testament. The act was symbolic, after the manner of the Hebrew prophets. Compare Ezekiel 37:5. The Holy Ghost. The article is wanting. Th...
THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST John 20:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The linen clothes. Before we discuss the resurrection with you, we want you to consider with us the manner in which Christ was wrapped arou...
He breathed on them — New life and vigour, and saith, as ye receive this breath out of my mouth, so receive ye the Spirit out of my fulness: the Holy Ghost influencing you in a peculiar manner, to fit...
Was the Holy Spirit given to the disciples before Pentecost? PROBLEM: In Acts, the apostles are told to wait until Pentecost before they receive the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:4-8; cf. 2:1–2). Yet even befor...
Does this passage support the Roman Catholic view that priests have the power to forgive sins? PROBLEM: Roman Catholics claim that Jesus gave His disciples the power to forgive sins and that this pow...