<p>3:34 <i>For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for He does not give him the Spirit by measure</i>- John was given the Spirit to speak as he did, but by specific measures. The Lord had the Spirit generally and constantly, not just measured out for some specific works. John sees a direct connection between the Lord's words and the Spirit. His words were directly inspired; and the Lord Himself states that His words are Spirit in 6:63. The &quot;For he whom God has sent...&quot; links back to the statement in :31 that John speaks of the earth, but the Lord from Heaven. The Lord's being &quot;from Heaven&quot; refers therefore to the fact that He had been given God's Spirit without measure in order to speak from Heaven, from God. There is no reference to any descent of some pre-existent Jesus from Heaven to earth. That is to miss the context and force a crude literalism on the clearly more abstract language being used here.</p>