by the Spirit to accomplish the work he came to do. As Gerald Hawthorne claims in his seminal study The Presence and the Power: The Significance of the Holy Spirit in the Life and Ministry of Jesus, the Holy Spirit’s presence and work in Jesus’s life is one of the most significant biblical evidences “of the genuineness of his humanity, for the significance of the Spirit in his life lies precisely in this: that the Holy Spirit was the divine power by which Jesus overcame his human limitations, rose
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