Acts 10:47
“Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?”
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46For they heard them speaking in tongues and magnifying God. Then Peter responded,
Cross References
Acts 2:4Then they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began speaking in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
Acts 8:36As they were going along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Behold, here is water! What prevents me from being baptized?”
Acts 15:8And God, who knows the heart, testified to them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us.
Romans 10:12For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who 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 →