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Pentecost, El Greco

Acts 19:2

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Acts 19:2 (WEB)

He said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” They said to him, “No, we haven’t even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”

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Cyril of Jerusalem

John Chrysostom

Jerome

  • “Those who have received only John’s baptism and have no knowledge of the Holy Spirit are baptized again, lest any should suppose that water unsanctified thereby could suffice for the salvation of either Jew or Gentile.” — editor's note: Acts xix. 1–7.

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  • “L. Pray tell me, have you not read in the Acts of the Apostles that those who had already been baptized by John, on their saying in reply to the Apostle’s question that they had not even heard what the Holy Ghost was, afterwards obtained the Holy Ghost?” — editor's note: xix. 2.

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Tertullian

  • “Accordingly, in the Acts of the Apostles, we find that men who had “John’s baptism” had not received the Holy Spirit, whom they knew not even by hearing.” — editor's note: Acts xix. 1–7. [John vii. 39.]

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