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Paul in Ephesus

19 Now it happened that while (A)Apollos was at (B)Corinth, Paul passed through the (C)upper regions and came to (D)Ephesus and found some disciples. And he said to them, “(E)Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said to him, “No, (F)we have not even heard if the Holy Spirit is being received.” And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” And they said, “(G)Into John’s baptism.” Then Paul said, “(H)John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people (I)to believe in Him who was coming after him, that is, in Jesus.” And when they heard this, they were (J)baptized [a]in the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had (K)laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began (L)speaking with tongues and (M)prophesying. Now there were in all about twelve men.

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  1. Acts 19:5 Lit into

Paul Goes to Ephesus

19 While Apollos was at Corinth, Paul traveled through the interior districts and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you became believers?”

“No,” they answered, “we have not even heard that the Holy Spirit was given.”

Paul asked, “What were you baptized into then?”

They replied, “Into John’s baptism.”

Paul said, “John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus.[a] When they heard this, they were baptized into the name of the Lord Jesus.”[b]

When Paul laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began to speak in other languages and to prophesy. There were about twelve men in all.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 19:4 Some witnesses to the text add Christ.
  2. Acts 19:5 The translation treats this verse as a continuation of Paul’s words. With this understanding, Paul did not baptize these disciples. However, if the quotation marks are placed at the end of verse 4, Paul did baptize them. The quotation marks are not a part of the original text, so either is textually possible.