Acts 10:47
“Can anyone forbid these people from being baptized with water? They have received the Holy Spirit just like us.”
World English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
46For they heard them speaking in other languages and magnifying God. Then Peter answered,
48He commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay some days.
Cross References
Acts 2:4They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.
Acts 8:36As they went on the way, they came to some water; and the eunuch said, “Behold, here is water. What is keeping me from being baptized?”
Acts 15:8God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.
Romans 10:12For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on 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 →