...on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: 23. Whose soever sins ye remit, or forgive, they are remitted unto them ; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained. The apostles had feared that their commission was at an end : Jesus assures them, that...

...world, he tells them : " As my Father hath sent me, even so send I you : whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained."!! By all which it is evident, that our Lord did not here give any personal prerogative...

...what they do. .' John xx. 21—23 : Then said Jesus to them again, . . Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; [and] whose soever [sins] ye retain, they are retained. Matt. xviii. 18 : Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound...

...Christ himself afterwards taught them so to understand it. John xx. 23. " Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained." The words are expressive of the apostolical office of teaching and governing Christ's...

...he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost. 23 Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained. 24 ^f But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came....

...he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost : 23 Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained. 24 If But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came....

...are committed, said, " As my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.—Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained v ." " Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father,...

...Christ himself afterwards taught them so to understand it. John xx. 23. " Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained." The words are expressive of the apostolical office of teaching and go-verning Christ's...

...Christ said unto them, " As my Father hath sent me, even so send I you .... Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained." — John xx. 21, 23. Death and Resurrection. John x. 17, 18. "Therefore doth my Father...

...put the power of eternal life and death into the hands of his apostles: " Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them ; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained."** If there is no reference to the miraculous gift of discerning spirits, by which they...