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RETAINED FORGIVEN BREATHED RECEIVE SPIRIT FATHER PEACE JESUS AGAIN WITH WHEN THIS THEY THEM SINS SENT SEND SAID NRSV JOHN HOLY YOU HAS HAD ARE ANY AND TO SO ON OF ME IF BE

(John 20:21-23) Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you." {22} When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. {23} If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained." (NRSV)

1. How did Jesus greet his disciples?
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2. Why did Jesus breathe on the disciples?
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3. What was Jesus' final blessing to the people? ___________________________
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Questions taken from Lesson Plans for Small Congregations; http://www.episcopalchurch.org/50534_ENG_HTM.htm

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 19Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

   20And when he had so said, he shewed unto them his hands and his side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the LORD.

   21Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.

   22And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:

   23Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.

   24But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.

   25The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the LORD. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.

   26And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.

   27Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.

   28And Thomas answered and said unto him, My LORD and my God.

   29Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.

   30And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book:

   31But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.