Acts 10:47
Can any one forbid water, that these should not be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit even as we have?
Noyes Bible
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46for they heard them speaking with tongues, and magnifying God. Then answered Peter,
Cross References
Acts 2:4And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, even as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Acts 8:36And as they went along the road, they came to a certain water; and the eunuch saith, See, here is water; what is there to hinder my being baptized?
Acts 15:8And God, who knoweth the heart, bore them witness, giving them the Holy Spirit, as he gave it to us;
Romans 10:12For there is no difference between Jew and Greek; for one and the same is Lord over all, rich to all that call upon him.
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 →