1. Acts 2:33 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What does it mean for Jesus to receive the Holy Spirit from the Father?

Acts 2:33 (ESV)

33 Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing.

In pouring out the Spirit, Jesus acts as God acts (Isaiah 40:13) and thus he is thereby identified with God (see Isaiah 44:3; Isaiah 61:1; John 14:26).1