"I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to
you." - John 14:18 KJV
Jesus comforted His disciples with the promise that He would
not leave them. Though He would die, be buried, on the third day rise again,
then forty days later ascend to heaven, Jesus assured His disciples He would
come to them.
"Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come
again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the
Father: for my Father is greater than I. And now I have told you before it come
to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe." - John 14:28-29
KJV
On the Day of Pentecost, Jesus came to His disciples as He
said He would. It was His Spirit that came, and as His disciples were filled
with His Spirit, they became the Body of Christ. The Father that was in Christ
doing the works, would now dwell in His disciples. They would become sons of
God. (John 1:11-13, John 3:5, Acts 2:38, John 14:9-11).
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on
me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he
do; because I go unto my Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that
will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any
thing in my name, I will do it." - John 14:12-14 KJV
"If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray
the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you
for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it
seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you,
and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to
you." - John 14:15-18 KJV
"And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they
were all with one accord in one place. ... And they were all filled with the
Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them
utterance." - Acts 2:1, 4 KJV
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