Jn 1, 32 I saw the Spirit remain upon him

(Jn 1, 32) I saw the Spirit remain upon him

[32] John testified further, saying, "I saw the Spirit come down like a dove from the sky and remain upon him.

(CCC 743) From the beginning to the end of time, whenever God sends his Son, he always sends his Spirit: their mission is conjoined and inseparable. (CCC 245) The apostolic faith concerning the Spirit was confessed by the second ecumenical council at Constantinople (381): "We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and giver of life, who proceeds from the Father" (Nicene Creed; cf. DS 150). By this confession, the Church recognizes the Father as "the source and origin of the whole divinity" (Council of Toledo VI (638): DS 490). But the eternal origin of the Spirit is not unconnected with the Son's origin: "The Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, is God, one and equal with the Father and the Son, of the same substance and also of the same nature... Yet he is not called the Spirit of the Father alone,... but the Spirit of both the Father and the Son" (Council of Toledo XI (675): DS 527). The Creed of the Church from the Council of Constantinople confesses: "With the Father and the Son, he is worshipped and glorified" (Nicene Creed; cf. DS 150). (CCC 246) The Latin tradition of the Creed confesses that the Spirit "proceeds from the Father and the Son (filioque)". The Council of Florence in 1438 explains: "The Holy Spirit is eternally from Father and Son; He has his nature and subsistence at once (simul) from the Father and the Son. He proceeds eternally from both as from one principle and through one spiration... And, since the Father has through generation given to the only-begotten Son everything that belongs to the Father, except being Father, the Son has also eternally from the Father, from whom he is eternally born, that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Son" (Council of Florence (1439): DS 1300-1301).