he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?”

So they said to him, (A)“We have not so much as heard whether there is a Holy Spirit.”

And he said to them, “Into what then were you baptized?”

So they said, (B)“Into John’s baptism.”

Then Paul said, (C)“John indeed baptized with a baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on Him who would come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.”

When they heard this, they were baptized (D)in the name of the Lord Jesus.

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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) On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 19:2 Or after