“Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.’ And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.’ “There are exactly two times that we see God/Jesus breathe (pnuemous) on anyone. The first time was Genesis when God breathed life into Adam giving him Dominion (authority) over the "lower creatures, and earth." The second time was when Jesus gave His authority to the Apostles.
Maybe this is one of the things removed from prot Bibles.
“Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.’ And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.’ “
And how would the apostles forgive sins? By preaching the Word. How would the sins be retained If people rejected the Word.
you cultists can gum things up sometimes.