The New Testament Doctrine of the Spirit

In the closing discourses of this gospel, the work of the Spirit as guiding all the disciples into the knowledge of the truth is made very prominent. Even from the synoptical sayings, though the Spirit may work in the sphere of the miracles, yet these miracles are wrought for the moral purpose of overthrowing the kingdom of evil. The Spirit leads Jesus into the wilderness to be tempted of Satan, and thus appears as pursuing the end of the Messiah's moral victory over the Prince of Evil. In the Old Testament, the emphasis still rests on the charismatic character of the Spirit's work.