Does the Holy Spirit proceed from the Father alone, or from the Father and the Son? The debate between East and West over the creed and the word Filioque.
8 verses are cited on this page. Each one links to its chapter in the Greek text.
...the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father.John 15:26
The one explicit statement of procession names the Father as source, the ground of the Eastern position, which the West affirms as true.
...but if I go, I will send him to you.John 16:7
The Son himself sends the Spirit, which the West reads as revealing the Son's part in the Spirit's coming forth.
...he breathed on them; and he said to them: Receive ye the Holy Ghost.John 20:22
The risen Christ breathes the Spirit upon the apostles, the Spirit coming through the Son.
...God hath sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts.Galatians 4:6
The Spirit is called the Spirit of the Son, bound to the Son in his very identity.
John 15:26 names the Father as the source from whom the Spirit proceeds, which the West affirms. Yet the Son sends the Spirit (John 16:7; 20:22), and the Spirit is "the Spirit of his Son" (Galatians 4:6), so the West confesses that the Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son as from one principle, the Council of Florence (1439) teaching that the Latin "from the Son" and the Greek "through the Son" mean one and the same thing. The grievance over how the word was added to the creed of 381 is a real historical question, and honesty grants it; but the doctrine of one spiration from Father and Son stands.