John 20:22 (WEB)
When he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit!
Catechism · 8
The Liturgy - Work of the Holy Trinity
“Thus the risen Christ, by giving the Holy Spirit to the apostles, entrusted to them his power of sanctifying:” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 20:21-23.
The Paschal Mystery in the Church's Sacraments
“…to his incarnate Son was committed to the apostles and through them to their successors: they receive the Spirit of Jesus to act in his name and in his person.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 20:21-23; Lk 24:47; Mt 28:18-20.
The Sacrament of Confirmation
“On several occasions Christ promised this outpouring of the Spirit, a promise which he fulfilled first on Easter Sunday and then more strikingly at Pentecost.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 20:22; Acts 2:1-14.
The Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation
“Further, by virtue of his divine authority he gives this power to men to exercise in his name.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 20:21-23.
The Sacrament of Holy Orders
“To fulfil their exalted mission, "the apostles were endowed by Christ with a special outpouring of the Holy Spirit coming upon them, and by the imposition of hands they passed on to their auxiliaries the gift of the Spirit, which is transmitted down to our day through episcopal consecration."” — Catechism footnote: LG 21; Cf. Acts 1:8; 24; Jn 20:22-23; 1 Tim 4:14; 2 Tim 1:6-7.
"I Believe in the Holy Spirit"
“At last Jesus' hour arrives: he commends his spirit into the Father's hands at the very moment when by his death he conquers death, so that, "raised from the dead by the glory of the Father," he might immediately give the Holy Spirit by "breathing" on his disciples.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 20:22.
The Church - People of God, Body of Christ, Temple of the Holy Spirit
- §788Paragraph 2 · The Church - People of God, Body of Christ, Temple of the Holy SpiritRead at vatican.va
“He promised to remain with them until the end of time; he sent them his Spirit.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 14:18; 20:22; Mt 28:20; Acts 2:33.
"I Believe in the Forgiveness of Sins"
“If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained."” — Catechism footnote: Jn 20:22-23.
Fathers and councils · 61
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus VII.51Book VII
“…God chasteneth them by little and little that offend;” and of those who, among their other instructions, teach us that words, “Receive ye the Holy Ghost,” refer to a degree of spiritual influence higher than that in the passage, “Ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.”” — editor's note: John xx. 22.
Read the whole comment “…Spirit is described as having descended upon Christ, and when the Lord breathed upon His apostles after His resurrection, saying, “Receive the Holy Spirit;” and the saying of the angel to Mary, “The Holy Spirit will come upon thee;” the declaration by Paul, that no one can call Jesus Lord, save by the Holy Spirit.” — editor's note: John xx. 22.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
- Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies Fragments from.52Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenæus
“And as He was spit upon ignominiously, so also did He breathe the Holy Spirit into His disciples.” — editor's note: John xx. 22.
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Jerome
“But you say,the Church was founded upon Peter: althoughelsewhere the same is attributed to all the Apostles, and they all receive the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and the strength of the Church depends upon them…” — editor's note: S. Matt. xviii. 18: S. John xx. 22, 23.
Read the whole comment“(9) How is the statement of John xx. 22 that Jesus breathed on his apostles the Holy Ghost to be reconciled with that of Luke (Luke xxiv. 49: Acts i. 4) that He would send it to them after His ascension?” — the author cites it
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…Spirit, He gave the Spirit and said, ‘Receive ye the Holy Ghost,’ and ‘I send Him,’ and ‘He shall glorify Me,’ and ‘Whatsoever He heareth, that He shall speak.’” — editor's note: John xx. 22; xvi. 13, 14.
Read the whole comment“But if thou wouldest hear the true matter, and be kept from Jewish fables, behold our Saviour who went up, and ‘breathed upon the face, and said to His disciples, Receive ye the Holy Ghost.’” — editor's note: John xx. 22.
Read the whole comment“For the walls of every adverse power, yea even of Jericho especially, falling down, and the gift of the Holy Spirit being then richly poured upon all men, every man perceiving the coming of the Spirit shall say, ‘We are all filled in the morning with Thy favour, and we rejoice and are made glad in our days.’” — editor's note: Cf. Letter x. 2, note 9. Vid. also John vii. 39; Rom. v. 5; John xx. 22
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“The fellowship of this Holy Spirit He bestowed on the Apostles; for it is written, And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.” — editor's note: John xx. 22.
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Ambrose of Milan
“For inasmuch as the Lord Jesus Himself said in the Gospel: “Receive ye the Holy Spirit: whosesoever sins ye forgive they are forgiven unto them, and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained,” who is it that honours Him most, he who obeys His bidding or he who rejects it?” — editor's note: S. John xx. 22, 23.
Read the whole comment“…was offended by Adam, seen by Abraham, worshipped by Jacob; so, too, the Holy Spirit is one, who energized in the prophets, was breathed upon the apostles, and was joined to the Father and the Son in the sacrament of baptism.” — editor's note: S. John xx. 22.
Read the whole comment“As the Lord Himself shows, saying: “Receive ye the Holy Spirit,” and elsewhere: “Virtue went out from Him.”” — editor's note: S. John xx. 22.
Read the whole comment“Whosesoever sins ye forgive they shall be forgiven.”” — editor's note: S. John xx. 22.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and saith, unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained.”” — editor's note: John xx. 21–23. [See notes of Oxf. edition on this letter.]
Read the whole comment“And again, in the Gospel, when Christ breathed on the apostles alone, saying, “Receive ye the Holy Ghost: whose soever sins ye remit they are remitted unto them, and whose soever sins ye retain they are retained.”” — editor's note: John xx. 22, 23. [The two texts here quoted lie at the base of Cyprian’s own theory; (1) to Peter alone this gift to signify its singleness, (2) then the same…
Read the whole comment“Whose soever sins ye remit, they shall be remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they shall be retained.”” — editor's note: John xx. 21–23.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…had already received the Holy Spirit on that occasion, subsequently to His resurrection, when He breathed upon them and said, “Receive ye the Holy Ghost,” also obtained a fuller gift of that Spirit at a later time, namely, when He was sent down from above on the day of Pentecost.” — editor's note: John xx. 22.
Read the whole comment“And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.”” — editor's note: John xx. 20–23.
Read the whole comment“It is here, too, that He imparts the Holy Spirit to the disciples by breathing on them giving us thereby to understand that this Spirit who is consubstantial and co-eternal with the Trinity, should not be considered to be simply the Spirit of the Father, but should also be held to be the Spirit of the Son.” — editor's note: John xx. 22.
Read the whole comment“Nor do I see what else He intended to signify, when He breathed on the face of the disciples, and said, “Receive ye the Holy Ghost.”” — editor's note: John xx. 22
Read the whole comment“For He Himself is called specially that which they are called in common; because both the Father is a spirit and the Son a spirit, both the Father is holy and the Son holy.” — editor's note: [The reason which Augustin here assigns, why the name Holy Spirit is given to the third person—namely, because spirituality is a characteristic of both the…
Read the whole comment“For then He promised that He Himself would send Him, and He sent Him; because then, as it was written and foretold of Him, “He ascended up on high, He led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.”” — editor's note: John xx. 22, vii. 39, and xv. 26
Read the whole comment“But the reason why, after His resurrection, He both gave the Holy Spirit, first on earth, and afterwards sent Him from heaven, is in my judgment this: that “love is shed abroad in our hearts,” by that Gift itself, whereby we love God and our…” — editor's note: John xx. 22
Read the whole comment“…Holy Ghost,” He immediately subjoined, “Whosesoever sins ye remit, they shall be remitted unto them, and whosesoever sins ye retain, they shall be retained.”” — editor's note: John xx. 22, 23.
Read the whole comment“…He hath given to His faithful ones, and not by men’s deserts, after He had risen from the dead, He saith in a certain place, “Receive ye the Holy Ghost;” and when He had said, “Receive ye the Holy Ghost,” He subjoined immediately, “Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them;” that is, the Spirit…” — editor's note: John xx. 22.
Read the whole comment“They are encouraged in this supposition by the fact that the Lord Jesus after His resurrection breathed on His disciples, and said, “Receive ye the Holy Spirit.”” — editor's note: John xx. 22.
Read the whole comment“And He breathed upon their faces,” He who with His breath enlivened the first man, and raised him up from the clay, by which breath He gave a soul to the limbs; signifying that He was the same who breathed upon their faces, that they might rise out of the mire and renounce their miry works.” — editor's note: John xx. 22.
Read the whole comment“For close on the back of His resurrection from the dead He breathed on them and said, “Receive ye the Holy Spirit.”” — editor's note: Chap. xx. 22.
Read the whole comment“For did He not so proceed, He could not, when showing Himself to His disciples after the resurrection, have breathed upon them, and said, “Receive ye the Holy Spirit.”” — editor's note: Chap. xx. 22.
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John Chrysostom
“So when He was about to send them, He said, “Receive ye the Holy Ghost” ( c. xx. 22 ); and again, “The Holy Ghost came upon them” ( Acts xix. 6 ), and then they wrought miracles.” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“For afterwards He declares that He Himself sendeth Him, saying, “Receive ye the Holy Ghost” ( c. xx. 22 ); but in this place He telleth them that He asketh the Father, so as to render His discourse credible to them.” — the author cites it
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Leo the Great
“…breathed on them and said: “Receive the Holy Ghost: whose sins ye have remitted they are remitted to them: and whose ye have retained, they shall be retained.”” — editor's note: S. John xx. 22, 23.
Read the whole comment“…touch by those who were affected by doubt, He entered when the doors were shut upon the Apostles, and by His breathing upon them gave them the Holy Spirit, and bestowing on them the light of understanding, opened the secrets of the Holy Scriptures.” — editor's note: S. John xx. 22.
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Basil the Great
“And He did not leave Him when He had risen from the dead; for when renewing man, and, by breathing on the face of the disciples, restoring the grace, that came of the inbreathing of God, which man had lost, what did the Lord say?” — editor's note: Gen. ii. 7, lxx. is ἐνεφύσησεν εἰς τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ. “εἰς τὸ πρόσωπον” is thence imported into John xx. 22. Mr. C.F.H. Johnston notes, “This addition…is found…
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Catena Aurea on John
- John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
The disciples, when they heard what Mary told them, were obliged either to disbelieve, or, if they believed, to grieve that He did not count them worthy to have the sight of Him. He did not let them however pass a…
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Wherein is shewn the infirmity of the Apostles. They assembled with doors shut, through that same fear of the Jews, which had before scattered them: Came Jesus, and stood in the midst. He came in the evening, because…
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Or because He waited till all were assembled: and with shut doors, that he might shew how that in the very same way he had risen again, i. e. with the stone lying on the scpulchre.
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Some are strongly indisposed to believe this miracle, and argue thus: If the same body rose again, which hung upon the Cross, how could that body enter through shut doors? But if thou comprehendest the mode, it is no…
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The shut door did not hinder the body, wherein Divinity resided. He could enter without open doors, who was born without a violation of His mother’s virginity.
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It is wonderful that they did not think him a phantom. But Mary had provided against this, by the faith she had wrought in them. And He Himself too shewed Himself so openly, and strengthened their wavering minds by…
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And because their faith wavered even with the material body before them, He shewed them His hands and side: And when He had said this, He shewed them His hands and His side.
Read the whole comment - Augustine of HippoCatena Aurea on John
The nails had pierced His hands, the lance had pierced His side. For the healing of doubting hearts, the marks of the wounds were still preserved.
Read the whole comment - John ChrysostomCatena Aurea on John
And what He had promised before the crucifixion, I shall see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, is now fulfilled: Then were the disciples glad when they saw the Lord.
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The glory, wherewith the righteous shall shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father, i. e. in Christ’s body, we must believe to have been rather veiled than not to have been there at all. He accommodated His…
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All these things brought them to a most confident faith. As they were in endless war with the Jews, He says again, Then said Jesus unto them again, Peace be unto you.
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A repetition is a confirmation: whether He repeats it because the grace of love is twofold, or because He it is who made of twain one.
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At the same time He shews the efficacy of the cross, by which He undoes all evil things, and gives all good things; which is peace. To the women above there was announced joy; for that sex was in sorrow, and had…
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The Father sent the Son, appointed Him to the work of redemption. He says therefore, As My Father hath sent Me, even so send I you; i. e. I love you, now that I send you to persecution, with the same love wherewith…
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We have learnt that the Son is equal to the Father: here He shews Himself Mediator; He Me, and I you.
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Having then given them confidence by His own miracles, and appealing to Him who sent Him, He uses a prayer to the Father, but of His own authority gives them power: And when He had said thus, He breathed on them, and…
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That corporeal breath was not the substance of the Holy Ghost, but to shew, by meet symbol, that the Holy Ghost proceeded not only from the Father, but the Son. For who would be so mad as to say, that it was one…
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But why is He first given to the disciples on earth, and afterwards sent from heaven? Because there are two commandments of love, to love God, and to love our neighbour. The spirit to love our neighbour is given on…
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Some say that by breathing He did not give them the Spirit, but made them meet to receive the Spirit. For if Daniel’s senses were so overpowered by the sight of the Angel, how would they have been overwhelmed in…
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The love of the Church, which is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit, remits the sins of those who partake of it; but retains the sins of those who do not. Where then He has said, Receive ye the Holy Ghost,…
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We must understand that those who first received the Holy Ghost, for innocence of life in themselves, and preaching to a few others, received it openly after the resurrection, that they might profit not a few only,…
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A priest though he may have ordered well his own life, yet, if he have not exercised proper vigilance over others, is sent to hell with the evil doers. Wherefore, knowing the greatness of their danger, pay them all…
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Didymus, double or doubtful, because he doubted in believing: Thomas, depth, because with most sure faith he penetrated into the depth of our Lord’s divinity.
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It was not an accident that that particular disciple was not present. The Divine mercy ordained that a doubting disciple should, by feeling in his Master the wounds of the flesh, heal in us the wounds of unbelief.…
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But why does this Evangelist say that Thomas was absent, when Luke writes that two disciples on their return from Emmaus found the eleven assembled? We must understand that Thomas had gone out, and that in the…
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As to believe directly, (ἁπλῶς) and any how, is the mark of too easy a mind, so is too much enquiring of a gross one: and this is Thomas’s fault. For when the Apostle said, We have seen the Lord, he did not believe,…
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