John 20:22

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 Holy Spirit into His disciples.[110]

Five Books in Reply to Marcion

Sprinkled, by speaking.[227]

Origen de Principiis Book I

And in the New Testament we have abundant testimonies, as when the Holy Spirit is described as having descended upon Christ, and when the Lord breathed upon His apostles after His resurrection, saying, "Receive the Holy Spirit; "[58]

Origen de Principiis Book I

Our Saviour also, after the resurrection, when old things had already passed away, and all things had become new, Himself a new man, and the first-born from the dead, His apostles also being renewed by faith in His resurrection, says, "Receive the Holy Spirit; "[83]

Origen Against Celsus Book VII

and of those who, among their other instructions, teach us that words, "Receive ye the Holy Ghost,"[131]

Cyprian Epistle LXXIV

And again, in the Gospel, when Christ breathed on the apostles alone, saying, "Receive ye the Holy Ghost: whose soever sins ye remit they are remitted unto them, and whose soever sins ye retain they are retained."[29]

A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity

And the Lord said, "Receive ye the Holy Ghost: whose sins ye remit, they shall be remitted; and whose ye retain, they shall be retained."[244]

A Treatise on Re-Baptism by an Anonymous Writer

Moreover, our Lord after His resurrection, when He had breathed upon His apostles, and had said to them, "Receive ye the Holy Ghost,"[11]

The Epistle of Pope Urban First

Whose soever sins ye remit, are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained."[10]

Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII

etc; but in the Gospel of John the Saviour having given the Holy Spirit unto the disciples by breathing upon them said, "Receive ye the Holy Spirit,"[75]