John 20:22

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 you for your great embassy. This was an earnest of pentecost.

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²² And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them,Receive ye the Holy Ghost:

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John 20:22