Receive YE the H.G.

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by Kutless

Hey that rhymes!

Did they receive the Holy Ghost in John 20:22?

I don't really know. It does not say they did or did not.

Barnes notes
He breathed on them - It was customary for the prophets to use some significant act to represent the nature of their message. See Jer. 13; Jer. 18, etc. In this case the act of breathing was used to represent the nature of the influence that would come upon them, and the source of that influence.
Receive ye the Holy Ghost - His breathing on them was a certain sign or pledge that they would be endowed with the influences of the Holy Spirit. Compare Act_1:4; John 2.


Perhaps this was prophetic, I mean this was the stage at which Jesus instructed the Disciples to go to Jerusalem and wait for the Promise of the Father

[Cindy]

And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,
Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered. Luke 4:1-2 KJV