John 14:18

"the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive, for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you and will be in you."

Key Reflection

This passage highlights that the Holy Spirit, as the Spirit of truth, is a gift meant exclusively for believers. While the world rejects and fails to recognize Him, Christians have a personal and intimate relationship with the Spirit, who indwells and guides them.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Verse 18. Comfortless. Greek, orphans. Jesus here addresses them as children, Joh 13:33. He says that he would show them the kindness of a parent, and, though he was going away, he would provide for their future welfare. And even while he was absent, yet they would sustain to him still the relation of children. Though he was to die, yet he would live again; though absent in body, yet he would be present with them by his Spirit; though he was to go away to heaven, yet he would return again to them. See Joh 14:3. {1} "comfortless" or, "orphans" {r} "I will come to you" Joh 14:3,28.

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