John 20:22
John 20:22 is the twenty-second verse of the twentieth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament. It records Jesus giving the Spirit to the disciples during his first appearance after the resurrection.Content
The original Koine Greek, according to the Textus Receptus, reads:
In the King James Version of the Bible it is translated as:
The modern World English Bible translates the passage as:
For a collection of other versions see Analysis
The account of Jesus' first appearance in the Gospel of John shows similarity to the account in the Gospel of Luke, that it happened in Jerusalem in the evening of his resurrection from the dead.
"He breathed on them" is from one Greek word ἐνεφύσησεν, recalling
