John 20:22 (Spiritual Succession; What Pentecost Represents for Christians Today)
Immediately following Jesus’ resurrection from the dead, after telling his disciples that as the Father had sent Him so was He sending them, the apostle John notes that Jesus “breathed on them, and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit’” (Joh 20:22). This was not his version of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit that…