Acts 19:3

So Paul said to them, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John's baptism.”

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John’s baptism.

In Context

2He said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” They said to him, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”

4Then Paul said, “John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, in Christ Jesus.”

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Cross References

Matthew 3:1In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,

Luke 3:1In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother was tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene,

Acts 18:25He had been instructed in the way of the Lord. Being fervent in spirit, he spoke and accurately taught the facts about the Lord, though he knew only about the baptism of John.

Matthew Henry on Acts 19:2-8

Paul at Ephesus. 1 And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples, 2 He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. 3 And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism. 4 Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that… Read the whole commentary →

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