16:14,15
These are a very trinitarian couple of verses. “He will glorify me”. A prime function of the Spirit, and a key indicator of whether or not something truly is of the Spirit, is whether or not it glorifies Jesus. The Spirit highlights who Jesus is. He does this because what He makes known He receives from Jesus. Now this may seem a little circular, but it is crucial to understanding. God is His own source of reference. He is the ultimate truth, the foundational truth. Everything stems from Him, so the truth stems from Him. So what Jesus is saying here is that the Spirit and the Son are in perfect harmony, just as the Father and the Son are.
And the next verse goes on to highlight the relationship between the Father and the Son. Everything the Father has belongs to the Son. So what the Spirit makes known comes from the Father. There is complete unity between the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
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