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39 For the promise is to you and ato your children, and bto all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”  

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40 And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Be saved from this1 perverse generation.”  
41 Then those who1 gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them.  
42 aAnd they continued steadfastly in the apostles’1 doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.  
43 Then fear came upon every soul, and amany wonders and signs were done through the apostles.  
44 Now all who believed were together, and ahad all things in common,  
45 and1 sold their possessions and goods, and adivided them among all, as anyone had need.  
46 aSo continuing daily with one accord bin the temple, and cbreaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart,  
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Acts 2:41

Acts 2:41 They that gladly received his word. Every believing penitent would gladly receive it. Were baptized. Not indefinitely in the future, but that day. The same day there were added about three thousand souls. Hackett, in his "Commentary on Acts", writes: "It is proper to add that pools numerous and large which encircled Jerusalem, as both those still in use, and as the remains of others testify of at the present day, afforded ample means for the celebration of the rite of baptism. The habits of the East, as every traveler knows, would present no obstacle to such a use of the public reservoirs.' It has been objected to the immersion of the three thousand that the apostles could not have done it in one day. We are not told that the apostles only were the baptists, or even baptized at all. There were at least 120 disciples there; perhaps even more on this great day. Perhaps the Seventy were all there. But the apostles alone could have discharged the office. There would be 250 to each one. Sixty persons have been immersed easily in an hour by one person. At this rate the whole work could have been accomplished by twelve men in about four hours. The celebrated Chrysostom, aided by his elders, baptized (immersed) 3,000 in a day in AD 404.




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