John 20:21-23

Jesus Appears to the Disciples

²¹ Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As _j the Father has sent me, _k even so I am sending you." ²² And when he had said this, he _l breathed on them and said to them, _m "Receive the Holy Spirit. ²³ _n If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld."

1. Cross References
   John 17:18
   As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.
   John 3:17
   For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
   
2. Cross References
   John 13:20
   Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.
   Acts 1:2
   Until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.
   
3. Cross References
   Genesis 2:7
   Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
   
4. Cross References
   Acts 2:4
   And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
   John 7:39
   Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
   
5. Cross References
   Matthew 16:19
   I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
   Matthew 18:18
   Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
   1 Corinthians 5:4 - 5
   When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus.