Section 7
Him as the resurrection, of which the Spirit is the reality. Hence, He is the Spirit in resurrection. He is God among men (John 1—17), He is life in death (John 18—19), and He is the Spirit in resurrection (John 20—21).
THE FULFILLMENT OF HIS PROMISE
The Holy Spirit in verse 22 of John 20 is the Spirit expected in 7:39 and promised in 14:16-17, 26; 15:26; and 16:7-8, 13. Thus, the Lord's breath ing of the Holy Spirit into the disciples was the fulfillment of His promise of the Holy Spirit as the Comforter. As we shall see, this fulfillment differs from the one in Acts 2:1-4. In chapter fourteen of John the Lord promised that He would ask the Father to send another Comforter. Here in chapter twenty He brings to His disci ples the other Comforter, the Spirit of reality. Now the Spirit of reality has come into His dis ciples to be within them; now the disciples know that the Lord is in the Father and that the Father is in the Lord; and now they are in the Lord and the Lord is in them. They realize that they are now one with the Triune God. Therefore, all that the Lord had spoken to them in chapters four teen, fifteen, and sixteen is fulfilled at this very moment. We must read those three chapters in