Acts 10:47 BSB — MannaFest

Acts 10:47

“Can anyone withhold the water to baptize these people? They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have!”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Can any man forbid the water, that these should not be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit as well as we?

KJV

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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Commentary

1 voice

Irenaeus

Against Heresies Book III (202)

...indicating by these words, that he would not have come to them unless he had been commanded. Neither, for a like reason, would he have given them baptism so readily, had he not heard them prophesying when the Holy Ghost rested upon them. And therefore did he exclaim, "Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, who have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?"

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, who have received the Holy Ghost? - He does not say they have the baptism of the Spirit; therefore they do not need baptism with water. But just the contrary: if they have received the Spirit, then baptize them with water. How easily is this question decided, if we will take the word of God for our rule!

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

It is not unlikely that some Gentiles might before now have stepped into a synagogue of the Jews, and heard the gospel preached; but the gospel was never yet designedly preached to the Gentiles, nor any of them baptized--Cornelius was the first; and here we have, I. An account given us of this Cornelius, who and what he was, who was the first-born of the Gentiles to Christ.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Can any man forbid water ... - They have shown that they are favored in the same way as the Jewish converts. God has manifested himself to them as he did to the Jews on the day of Pentecost. Is it not clear, therefore, that they are entitled to the privilege of Christian baptism? The expression used here is one that would naturally refer to water as being brought; that is, to a small quantity; and would seem to imply that they were baptized, not by immersion, but by pouring or sprinkling.

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
μήτι	mēti	surely not ever	G3385 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
ὕδωρ	hudōr	water	G5204 →
δύναται	dunatai	is able	G1410 →
κωλῦσαί	kōlusai	to withhold	G2967 →
τις	tis	anyone	G5100 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
μὴ	mē	not	G3361 →
βαπτισθῆναι	baptisthēnai	to baptize	G907 →
τούτους,	toutous	these	G3778 →
οἵτινες	oitines	who	G3748 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
πνεῦμα	pneuma	Spirit	G4151 →
τὸ	to	<the>	G3588 →
ἅγιον	hagion	Holy	G40 →
ἔλαβον	elabon	have received	G2983 →
ὡς	hōs	as	G5613 →
καὶ	kai	also [have]	G2532 →
ἡμεῖς;	hēmeis	we ourselves?	G3165 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Romans 10:12
For there is no difference between Jew and Greek: The same Lord is Lord of all, and gives richly to all who call on Him,
leads to
- Philippians 4:19
  And my God will supply all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
- Revelation 17:14
  They will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will triumph over them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and He will be accompanied by His called and chosen…
- Galatians 3:28
  There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
- Romans 3:22
  And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,
- Colossians 3:11
  Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.
Through
Acts 8:36
As they traveled along the road and came to some water, the eunuch said, “Look, here is water! What is there to prevent me from being baptized?”
leads to
- John 3:5
  Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit.
- Titus 3:5–6
  He saved us, not by the righteous deeds we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of new birth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
- John 3:23
  Now John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because the water was plentiful there, and people kept coming to be baptized.