⁴⁷ “Can anyone forbid water, that these should not be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit ^(A)just as we have?”

³⁶ Now as they went down the road, they came to some water. And the eunuch said, “See, here is water. ^(A)What hinders me from being baptized?”

¹² For ^(A)there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for ^(B)the same Lord over all ^(C)is rich to all who call upon Him.

¹⁵ And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, ^(A)as upon us at the beginning. ¹⁶ Then I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said, ^(B)‘John indeed baptized with water, but ^(C)you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ ^17 (D)If therefore God gave them the same gift as He gave us when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, ^(E)who was I that I could withstand God?”

⁸ So God, ^(A)who knows the heart, ^[a]acknowledged them by ^(B)giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He did to us, ^9 (C)and made no distinction between us and them, ^(D)purifying their hearts by faith.

²⁴ Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. ²⁵ And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. ²⁶ That very same day Abraham was circumcised, and his son Ishmael;

¹² But when they believed Philip as he preached the things ^(A)concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were baptized.

⁴ And ^(A)they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began ^(B)to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

¹¹ And ^(A)he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while still uncircumcised, that ^(B)he might be the father of all those who believe, though they are uncircumcised, that righteousness might be imputed to them also,