Gentiles Receive the Holy Spirit

⁴⁴ While Peter was still making this statement, the Holy Spirit fell on all the people who were listening to his message. ⁴⁵ Then the circumcised believers who had come with Peter were amazed that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the gentiles, too, ⁴⁶ because they heard them speaking in foreign languages^[a] and praising God. Then Peter said, ⁴⁷ “No one can stop us from using water to baptize these people who have received the Holy Spirit in the same way that we did, can they?”^{[b] 48} So Peter^[c] ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus the Messiah.^[d] Then they asked him to stay there for several days.