36And 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?
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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?
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; …
And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.
This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 26-40)We have here the story of the conversion of an Ethiopian eunuch to the faith of Christ, by whom, we have reason to think, the knowledge of Christ was sent into that country where he lived, and that scripture fulfilled, Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands (one of the first of the nations) unto God , Ps. 68:31. I. Philip the evangelist is directed into the road where he would meet with this Et…
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