16(For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)
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Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. …
And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-25)God had wonderfully owned Philip in his work as an evangelist at Samaria, but he could do no more than an evangelist; there were some peculiar powers reserved to the apostles, for the keeping up of the dignity of their office, and here we have an account of what was done by two of them there— Peter and John . The twelve kept together at Jerusalem (Acts 8:1), and thither these good tidings were bro…
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