JMNT(i)
21 Then Jesus again said to them, "Peace (or: Harmony and prosperity [= Shalom])
to and for you folks! Correspondingly (or: According; On the same level; In the same sphere; In line with)
as the Father has sent Me forth with a mission and as an Emissary (Representative),
I Myself also am progressively (or: repeatedly; or: one after another)
sending (dispatching)
you folks."
22 And saying this, He suddenly blows on, and says to, them (or: He breathes within [them], so as to inflate them [note: same verb as used in
Gen. 2:7, LXX], and is saying to them),
"Receive a set-apart spirit! (or: Get [the] Holy Spirit!; take the Sacred Breath!; or: Receive a sacred attitude),
23 "If you folks should send away (dismiss; allow to depart; forgive; pardon; divorce)
the mistakes (sins; errors; failures)
of certain ones, they have been sent away for them (or: have been and remain pardoned in them; have been dismissed or divorced by them).
If you would continue holding fast and controlling (or: should keep on grasping and exercising strength; or: can restrain, hinder, hold back)
those of certain ones, they have been and continue being held fast and controlled (seized; grasped; restrained).
"