Acts 10:47
Then Peter responded, Whether is any one able to forbid the water, that these shall not be baptized, whosoever received the Holy Ghost as we indeed?
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
In Context
46for they were hearing them speaking with tongues, and magnifying God.
Cross References
Acts 2:4and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Acts 8:36And while they were journeying along the road, they came to a certain water: and the eunuch says, Behold water; what doth hinder me from being baptized?
Acts 15:8And God, who knows the heart, witnessed to them, giving to them the Holy Ghost, as also to us;
Romans 10:12For there is no difference between Jew and Greek: for the same is Lord of all, rich unto all that 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 →