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NASB | John 20:22 And when He had said this, He breathed on them and *said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 20:22 And when He said this, He breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. [Acts 1:8; 2:1-3] |
Subject: Retain or forgive sins? |
Bible Note: Dear Val, I can see how the apostles would be preaching a message resulting in forgiveness of sin and that the apostles would be merely assenting to what they observed. What I can't see is why Jesus would breathe the Holy Spirit on them to preach the message and then tell them in Acts 1 to wait for the Holy Spirit to come with power before they were to go preach the same message you are saying He was indicating for them to do in John 20:22. I agree whole heartedly with you about it being Peter's confession about Christ, but there is also that there is a play on words here with Christ saying Peter and petra and petra means foundation boulder. Peter says elsewhere that the church is built of living stones that all confess Christ. And in Ephesians it says that the church was built on the foundation of Christ and the prophets and the apostles, Christ Jesus being the chief cornerstone and the rest being a building fitted together (that is composed of stones in a building). God Bless, Tamara |