Jesus sends the Counselor for the disciples’ benefit. Their present inability to bear more teaching introduces the promise that the Spirit will guide them, speak what he hears, and declare what he takes from the Son; Jesus connects this with all that the Father has being his. Hearing and receiving are genuinely attributed to the Spirit. The paragraph concerns the message disclosed to the disciples and does not specify whether receiving involves previously absent knowledge; it supplies no explicit classification of the Spirit’s nature.
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