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a quienes preguntó:

— ¿Recibieron el Espíritu Santo cuando abrazaron la fe?

— Ni siquiera hemos oído hablar del Espíritu Santo —le respondieron—.

— Entonces, ¿qué bautismo han recibido? —preguntó Pablo—.

— El bautismo de Juan —contestaron—.

Pablo les explicó:

— Juan bautizaba como señal de conversión, e invitaba a la gente a creer en el que había de venir después de él, es decir, en Jesús.

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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)

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 19:2 Or after

He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost.

And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism.

Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.

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