12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• Holy Spirit
• Incarnation
• Word of God

• Full Deity of the Spirit · major

10 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1John 4:14 — And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
• 1Sam 16:13 — Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
• 2Cor 1:21 — Now he which stablisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God;
• Acts 1:2 — Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:
• Acts 10:38 — How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
• Acts 10:38 — How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
• Col 1:18 — And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
• Col 1:19 — For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
• Col 1:19 — For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
• Col 2:9 — For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
• Dan 9:24 — Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting right
• Deut 34:9 — And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.
• Eph 3:8 — Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
• Eph 4:7 — But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
• Exod 29:7 — Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him.
• Exod 40:10 — And thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all his vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it shall be an altar most holy.
• Gal 4:6 — And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
• Heb 9:14 — How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
• Isa 11:2 — And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
• Isa 11:2 — And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;
• Isa 28:6 — And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
• Isa 42:1 — Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
• Isa 48:16 — Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me.
• Isa 51:16 — And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.
• Isa 59:21 — As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed,
• Isa 61:1 — The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and th
• John 1:16 — And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
• John 1:16 — And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
• John 1:33 — And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy
• John 3:17 — For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
• John 5:26 — For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;
• John 7:16 — Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.
• John 7:37 — In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
• John 8:47 — He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
• John 10:36 — Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
• John 14:24 — He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father’s which sent me.
• John 15:26 — But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
• John 17:3 — And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
• Judg 13:25 — And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.
• Lev 2:4 — And if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.