Acts 19:2 meaning and explanation
and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you became believers?” “No,” they answered, “we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”
Acts 19:2, Berean Standard Bible
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Paul is speaking in Ephesus to about twelve disciples he has just met, men who had received only John the Baptist's baptism of repentance. His question assumes that the Spirit is normally given to believers, so their answer exposes a gap in what they had been taught.
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