<p>14:17 <i>The Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive. For it neither sees him nor knows him. You truly know him, for he abides with you and shall be in you</i>- This is clarified when we appreciate the allusion to the prologue. The Jewish world did not receive the Lord Jesus, and therefore did not receive His Spirit; but those who did received power to become God's children, and the grace / gift of all His fullness (1:11,12,16). &quot;You truly know him&quot; was not then true; as noted on :9 and :10, the Lord is imputing knowledge to them which they did not have at that very moment. We too need to see the spiritual potential in people, rather than relating to them how they are at this given moment.</p><p>Likewise the Spirit of truth, so named because it would guide them into all truth (16:13), &quot;abides with you&quot; right then. Although the Spirit was only poured out at the Lord's glorification on the cross (7:38,39), this was so certain that the Lord perceived that potentially, the Spirit was within them already. This is the scenario in Corinthians, where they had been given the Spirit potentially, but were &quot;not spiritual&quot; (1 Cor. 3:1); and it is the case with many believers today who have not perceived the potential of the Spirit within them.</p><p>The promised Spirit &quot;shall be in you&quot;; it speaks fundamentally of an internal power, guiding into truth (16:13), which is a matter of the mind rather than miraculous external gifts. The Lord has just defined Himself personally as &quot;the truth&quot;, so the promise is not so much of intellectual purity of understanding as relationship with Him; for &quot;truth&quot; is a Hebraism for relationship. It is only the Western mindset which would see in &quot;truth&quot; here a reference to academic, intellectual purity of understanding.</p>