the Father who is in heaven give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?” This promise related to the future. In John 7:37–39 we read: “In the last, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink. He that believes on Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. But this He said concerning the Spirit, which they that believed on Him were about to receive; for the Spirit was not yet, because Jesus had not
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