Acts 19:4

Acts 19:4

2 he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” So they said to him, ^a“We have not so much as heard whether there is a Holy Spirit.”

3 And he said to them, “Into what then were you baptized?” So they said, ^a“Into John’s baptism.”

4 Then Paul said, ^a“John indeed baptized with a baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on Him who would come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.”

5 When they heard this, they were baptized ^ain the name of the Lord Jesus.

6 And when Paul had ^alaid hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and ^bthey spoke with tongues and prophesied.

7 Now the men were about twelve in all.

8 ^aAnd he went into the synagogue and spoke boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading ^bconcerning the things of the kingdom of God.

9 But ^awhen some were hardened and did not believe, but spoke evil ^bof the Way before the multitude, he departed from them and withdrew the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Then said Paul, John . . . baptized with the baptism of repentance—water unto repentance.

saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him—that is, who should baptize with the Holy Ghost. The point of contrast is not between John and Christ personally, but between the water baptism of John unto repentance, and the promised baptism of the Spirit from the hands of his coming Master unto new life. As to all the facts, or at least the significancy, of this baptism, which made the whole life and work of Christ another thing from what it was conceived to be before it was vouchsafed, these simple disciples were unenlightened.

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