He said to them, “(A)Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said to him, “On the contrary, (B)we have not even heard if there is a Holy Spirit.” And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” And they said, “(C)Into John’s baptism.” Paul said, “(D)John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people (E)to believe in Him who was coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”

Read full chapter

and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit(A) when[a] you believed?”

They answered, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”

So Paul asked, “Then what baptism did you receive?”

“John’s baptism,” they replied.

Paul said, “John’s baptism(B) was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”(C)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Acts 19:2 Or after