John 20:22 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them,Receive ye the Holy Ghost: ”

• John 20:22 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  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 breath...

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• John 20:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• John 20:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  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, br...

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• John 20:22 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  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,...

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• John 20:22 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1731 INSPIRATION AND AUTHORITY OF THE APOSTLES John 20:21-23 . 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 th...

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• John 20:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And when he had said this, he breathed on them , and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: He breathed on them - Intimating, by this, that they were to be made new men, in order to be properly...

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• John 20:22 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  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...

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• John 20:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• John 20:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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; fo...

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• John 20:22 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  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...

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• John 20:22 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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 t...

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• John 20:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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, a...

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• John 20:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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...

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• John 20:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  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...

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• John 20:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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 t...

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• John 20:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 throu...

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• John 20:22 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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 incr...

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• John 20:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Christ with His Disciples.       19 Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the d...

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• John 20:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  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)...

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• John 20:22 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Jesus Appears To All The Apostles Apart From Thomas ( John 20:19-23 ).

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• John 20:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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 ho...

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• John 20:22 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  John 20:15-23 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. Jo...

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• John 20:22 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  John 20:11-12 . 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 th...

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• John 20:22 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 Jo...

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• John 20:22 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• John 20:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION John 20:1-43 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 gre...

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• John 20:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Two Appearances to the Assembled Disciples. On the evening of Easter Day:

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• John 20:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Acts 10:47 ; Acts 19:2 ; Acts 2:38 ; Acts 2:4 ; Acts 4:8 ; Acts 8:15 ; Ezekiel 37:9 ; Galatians 3:2 ; Genesis 2:7 ; Job 33:4 ; John 14:16 ; John 15:26 ; John 16:7 ; Psalms 33:6

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• John 20:22 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Resurrection of Christ John 20:1-31 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 wra...

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• John 20:22 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  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...

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