Acts Chapter 10 verse 47 Holy Bible
Can any man forbid the water, that these should not be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit as well as we?
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Will any man say that these may not have baptism who have been given the Holy Spirit as we have?
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Can any one forbid water that these should not be baptised, who have received the Holy Spirit as we also [did]?
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Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?
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"Can any man forbid the water, that these who have received the Holy Spirit as well as we should not be baptized?"
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Then answered Peter, `The water is any one able to forbid, that these may not be baptized, who the Holy Spirit did receive -- even as also we?'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 47. - The water for water, A.V. They actually had the Spirit, which God himself supplied; could any one object to their having the water also, which was the part of the sacrament which it rested with man to supply, in order to complete the new birth (John 3:5)?
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(47) Can any man forbid water . . .--The question was an appeal to the voice of reason. Could the outward sign be refused, when thus the inward and spiritual grace had been so manifestly bestowed? Ordinarily, as in the case of the Samaritans (Acts 8:15-17), the gift of spiritual powers followed, by the subsequent act of laying on of hands, on the grace given in baptism. Now even that gift had been anticipated, and all that remained was the outward act of incorporation with the society which owned Christ as its Head. While the history thus bore its witness that the gifts of God may flow through other channels than the outward forms which Christ had appointed, it testified no less clearly that no spiritual gifts, however marvellous, superseded the necessity of obedience to the law of Christ which had appointed those outward forms. The exceptional gift was bestowed, in this instance, to remove the scruples which "those of the circumcision" might otherwise have felt as to admitting Gentiles, as such, to baptism; and having served that purpose, as a crucial instance, was never afterwards, so far as we know, repeated under like conditions.
