47Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?
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And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?
And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning. …
For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us; …
And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 44-48)We have here the issue and effect of Peter’s sermon to Cornelius and his friends. He did not labour in vain among them, but they were all brought home to Christ. Here we have, I. God’s owning Peter’s word, by conferring the Holy Ghost upon the hearers of it, and immediately upon the hearing of it (Acts 10:44): While Peter was yet speaking these words , and perhaps designed to say more, he was happ…
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