Acts 10:46

for they heard them speaking with tongues, and magnifying God. Then Peter answered:

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,

In Context

45And the believers that were of the circumcision, as many as had come with Peter, were astonished, because on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Spirit:

47Can any one forbid the water, that these should not be immersed, who have received the Holy Spirit as well as we?

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Cross References

Mark 16:17And these signs shall attend those who believe. In my name they shall cast out demons; they shall speak with new tongues;

Acts 2:11Cretes and Arabians―we hear them speaking, in our own tongues, the wonderful works of God?

1 Corinthians 14:20Brethren, be not children in understanding: yet, in malice, be childlike; but, in understanding, be full-grown men.

Matthew Henry on Acts 10:45-48

The Effect of Peter's Sermon. 44 While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. 45 And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost. 46 For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter, 47 Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we? 48 And he commanded them to be… Read the whole commentary →

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