I think Jesus does present the Holy Spirit as being a divine person like Him or the Father. [/COLOR]Consider: I. Jesus said that the Holy Spirit issued from the Father, like himself (Jn 15:26); i.e., he is of the same divine nature as the Father and himself. II. Jesus also said the Holy Spirit was another comforter (counselor, advocate, helper), like himself (Jn 14:16-17, 25-26, 15:26, 16:7), all words denoting a person, and conveying thoughts of encouragement, support, assistance, care, and the shouldering of responsibility for another's welfare--all functions of persons. III. He also presents the Holy Spirit as having the attributes of God: omniscience - Jn 16:13; 1Co 2:10-11, sovereignty - Jn 3:8; 1Co 12:11, omnipotence - Mt 12:28; Ro 8:11, omnipresence - 1Co 3:16. IV. And then Jesus refers to the Holy Spirit with personal pronouns (meaning person). He refers to the Holy Spirit as "him" or "he" (Jn 16:7, 8). Then in Jn 16:13-14, the neuter (impersonal) noun "spirit" (Gr: peuma), against all the rules of grammar, is given a (personal) masculine pronoun ("he"), which denotes personhood of the Holy Spirit. Likewise, the NT gives attributes of personhood to the Holy Spirit: intelligence - Jn 14:26, 15:26, 16:13; Lk 12:12; Ro 8:27, 1Co 2:12-13; 1Jn 2:20, 27, will - Ac 16:6-7; 1Co 12:11, affections - Eph 4:30, sinned against - Mt 12:31-32; Ac 5:3. The NT also shows the Holy Spirit performing actions of personhood, acting as a personal agent: counseling, teaching, guiding, convicting, comforting - Jn 14:16, 26, 15:26, 16:17, showing the future - Jn 16:13b; 1Tim 4:1; 1Pe 1:11; 2Pe 1:21, testifying - Jn 15:26; Ac 5:32; Ro 8:16; Heb 2:4, speaking - Ac 8:29, 10:19-20, 11:12, 13:2, 21:11, deciding - Ac 15:28, forbidding - Ac 16:7, searching into secrets - 1Co 2:10, appointing and sending out missionaries - Ac 13:4, 20:28, interceding - Ro 8:26-27, enabling - Ac 2:4; Ro 8:26, leading - Gal 5:18, generating Christ's body and soul - Mt 1:18. I find the testimony of the NT to be conclusive that the Holy Spirit is a person. V. And then the NT writers, as well as the OT writers, present the Holy Spirit as God: Ge 1:2; Job 33:4; Ps 104:30 - the Spirit of God is identified with God in creation. Isa 11:2 - the Spirit of God is called the Spirit of YHWH. Ac 28:25 - the Adonai of Isa 6:8-10 is the Holy Spirit. Ac 5:3-4 - lying to the person of the Holy Spirit is lying to God. 1Co 2:11-14 - the Holy Spirit is the spirit of God who is from God. Heb 3:9, 10:15 - attributes the words of YHWH in Ex 17:7 and Jer 31:33 to the Holy Spirit. Ac 28:25 - attributes the words of YHWH in Isa 6:9-10 to the Holy Spirit. So the NT presents the Holy Spirit is a divine person, and the third person of the Godhead of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Would you not agree that Jesus presents the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit bracketed together as the triune name of God: Mt 28:19 - "baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." Note that the NT in: 1Co 12:4-6 - uses all three interchangeably, 2Co 13:14 - links them in prayer for divine blessing. Do you not think the NT conclusively presents three distinct and separate co-equal persons in revealing the nature of God? This revelation is the heart of the Christian faith in God--three separate, distinct and co-equal persons in one God, the Son sent by the Father (Jn 5:23, 36, 43) and doing the will of the Father (Jn 4:34 5:23, 36, 43, 10:25, 12:49-50, 14:24, 17:4), and the Spirit sent by the Father (Jn 14:26) and the Son (Jn 15:26, 16:7) doing the will of the Father (Jn 14:26) and the Son (Jn 14:26, 16:7).