Please read the passage before the commentary.
Jesus said that he had much to tell the disciples. He added that the Spirit of truth would come to guide them into all truth.
The Spirit, however, would not speak on his own. Some people in John’s time seem to have thought that the Spirit would perhaps correct the teaching Jesus had given or add to what Jesus had said. The Spirit would not come to change what Jesus had said or done, but to confirm Jesus’ words.
There is a continuity in God’s word and in the Bible. Jesus explained to the disciples the meaning of the law and the prophets. John insists that this continuity also exists between what Jesus said and did and what the Spirit of truth says and does.
There is no division in God. We do speak of three persons in the one God, the persons exist together in perfect unity despite a distinction in function and relationship. Everything that the Father has belongs to the Son, and everything of the Son’s is declared by the Spirit so that we are inserted into the work and words of the one God. Our lives, therefore, are shaped by this trinitarian God: we share the life and work of the one God in Jesus Christ and the Spirit of truth. In doing this we become one with this one God.
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