Acts 19:3 (WEB)
He said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John’s baptism.”
Fathers and councils · 4
Cyril of Jerusalem
“How shall I worthily recount the mighty deeds which were wrought at Ephesus through Paul, by the Holy Ghost?” — editor's note: Acts xix. 1–6.
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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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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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Augustine of Hippo
“Behold, after John baptism was given; after heretical baptism is it not to be given? because certain who had the baptism of John were commanded by Paul to be baptized, for they had not the baptism of Christ.” — editor's note: Acts xix. 3–5.
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