Acts 10:47 meaning and explanation

“Can anyone withhold the water to baptize these people? They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have!”

Acts 10:47, Berean Standard Bible

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Peter speaks these words in the house of Cornelius, a Roman centurion in Caesarea. Just before this, the Holy Spirit fell on Cornelius and his household while Peter was still preaching, and the Jewish believers with him were astonished that Gentiles had received the same gift.

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