"if I depart, I will send him"
“It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter[parákletos], will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.”(John 16:7).
Now, this statement begs the question: If the Comforter is a different being(separate from the Father & Son), how is it that Jesus had to go back to Heaven before the Comforter could be sent? Was the Comforter so busy up there that He couldn't come to Earth until Jesus arrived and relieved Him of His other responsibilities? (sarcasm) Or, does the Bible give us a clue?
… the Comforter[parákletos], which is the Holy Ghost[pneûma]. (John 14:26).
Greek Word Study on parákletos => http://sidnash.org/docs/parakletos.html
"... when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit[pneûma] of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:" -Jesus, John 15:26.
We see here that Jesus "will send"(Jn15:26;16:7) "him"(Comforter/Spirit of truth/Holy Spirit) and that "him" is "from the Father" and "the promise of my(Christ's) Father".
And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high. (Luke 24:49)
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit[pneûma], which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost[pneûma] was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.) (John 7:38-39)
- Jeremiah 2:12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith Jehovah. 13 For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
- Here, we see that Israel forsook Father Jehovah, "the fountain of living waters", the "true God"(Jer10:10;Jn17:3) in favor of their own "broken cisterns" which could "hold no water". In other words, they created their own gods, who had no "living water" to give.
- Jeremiah 17:13 ... they have forsaken Jehovah, the fountain of living waters.
- John 4:10 Jesus answered and said unto unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he[Jesus] would have given thee living water... 14 but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up unto eternal life. 15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come all the way hither to draw.
- Here, we see that the "rivers of living water" proceed from Father Jehovah, the "fountain of living waters" and that this is the "promise of my(Christ's) Father", given to us by Jesus and later confirmed by Peter in Acts 2:33 (below).
These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: ... I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. (John 17:1,4,5)
[Jesus,] being assembled together with them[His disciples], commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost[pneûma](living water) not many days hence... But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost[pneûma] is come upon you; and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. (Acts 1:4-8)
After the fulfillment, Peter said, "Therefore [Jesus] being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost[pneûma], he[Jesus] hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear." (Acts 2:33).
Above, we see that the promise of Christ's Father(Lk24:39;Ac1:4), the Holy Spirit, is now received from Jesus, just as He had promised. Below, we see it concisely summed up by Paul:
“And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit[pneûma] of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.” (Galatians 4:6)
Related study on Jesus words, "another Comforter", => http://sidnash.org/docs/allos.html
Desiring to live by every word that comes from the mouth of Jehovah (Deut8:3; Matt4:4)
-Sid Nash: 09/23/2023. Latest version: http://sidnash.org/docs/ComforterSent.html