Then John gave this testimony: "I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven like a dove, and it remained on Him.

I did not know Him myself, but the very One who sent me to baptize in water said to me, 'The One on whom you see the Spirit coming down and remaining, is the One who is to baptize in the Holy Spirit.'

Jesus answered, "I most solemnly say to you, no one can ever get into the kingdom of God, unless he is born of water and the Spirit.

Whatever is born of the physical is physical, and whatever is born of the Spirit is spiritual.

The wind blows where it pleases, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. That is just the way it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

For He whom God has sent continues to speak the words of God, for God continues to give Him the Spirit without measure.

But a time is coming -- indeed, it is already here -- when the real worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and reality, for the Father is looking for just such worshipers.

God is a spiritual Being, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and reality."

The Spirit is what gives life; the flesh does not help at all. The truths that I have told you are spirit and life.

By this He referred to the Spirit that those believing in Him were going to receive -- for the Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

After saying this Jesus was deeply moved in spirit and solemnly said, "I most solemnly say to you, one of you is going to betray me."

even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see Him or recognize Him, because He is going to remain with you, and will be within you.

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send to represent me, will teach you everything Himself, and cause you to remember everything that I have told you.

"When the Helper comes whom I will send from the Father to you, the Spirit of truth that comes from the Father, He will testify to me.

But when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into the whole truth, for He will not speak on His own authority but will tell what is told Him, and will announce to you the things that are to come.

As soon as Jesus took the sour wine, He said, "It is finished!" Then He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.

On saying this, He breathed upon them, and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit!