(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
(But this spake he of the Spirit - Who, by His direct Personal Agency, opens up these fountains, these rivers of living water, in the human spirit (John 3:6), and by his indwelling in the renewed soul ensures their of living water, in the human spirit (John 3:6), and by his indwelling in the renewed soul ensures their unfailing flow.
Which they that believe on him should receive [or 'were about to receive' emellon (G3195 ) lambanein (G2983 )]: for the Holy Spirit was not yet [given]. Beyond all doubt the word "given," or some similar word, is the right supplement here, if we are to insert any supplement at all. In John 16:7 the Holy Spirit is represented not only as the gift of Christ, but a Gift the communication of which was dependent upon His own departure to the Father. Now, as Christ was not yet gone, so the Holy Spirit was not yet given, "because that Jesus was not yet glorified."
Because that Jesus was not yet glorified.) This is one of those explanatory remarks of our Evangelist himself which constitute a marked feature of this Fourth Gospel. The word "glorified" is here used advisedly, to teach the reader not only that the departure of Christ to the Father was indispensable to the giving of the Spirit, but that this illustrious Gift, direct from the hands of the ascended Saviour, was God's intimation to the world that He whom it had cast out, crucified, and slain, was "His Elect, in whom His soul delighted," and that it was through the smiting of that Rock that the waters of the Spirit-for which the Church was waiting, and with pomp at the feast of Tabernacles proclaiming its expectation-had gushed forth upon a thirsty world.