Acts 10:47
“Can anyone refuse the water for the baptism of these people, now that they have received the Holy Spirit as we did ourselves?”
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46for they heard them speaking in different languages and extolling God. At this Peter asked,
Cross References
Acts 2:4and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in different languages as the Spirit prompted their utterances.
Acts 8:36Presently, as they were going along the road, they came to some water, and the Treasurer exclaimed, “Look! Here is water; what is to prevent my being baptized?”
Acts 15:8Now God, who reads all hearts, declared his acceptance of the Gentiles, by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us.
Romans 10:12For no distinction is made between the Jew and the Greek, for all have the same Lord, and he is bountiful to all who invoke 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 →