Acts 10:47

Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?

Ver. 47. Can forbid water] Plain water, without oil, salt, spittle, cream, or other popish additaments.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Can any man forbid water ... - They have shown that they are favored in the same way as the Jewish converts. God has manifested himself to them a...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

(9) Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we? (9) Baptism does not sanctify or...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Result of the Sermon. The Holy Spirit comes as a rule at baptism, but here, before anything is said about baptism, Peter's speech is interrupted by...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

any man . any one. Greek. tis. App-123. forbid . Same as "hinder" in Acts 8:36 . baptized . App-115. as well as we . even as we also.
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

47. Peter answered. Peter reasoneth from the thing to the sign; for, seeing that baptism is an addition or appurtenance of the spiritual gra...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we? Can any man forbid water - These had e...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Can any man forbid water, &c.— That is, according to Whitby and Doddridge, "Who can forbid that water should be brought?" In which view of the...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we? Can any man forbid water, that...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Peter and the Gentiles 1-48. Conversion of Cornelius. The baptism of Cornelius was an event of farreaching importance, and is, therefore, describe...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Water ] the water, viz. of Baptism.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Can any man forbid water... — The question was an appeal to the voice of reason. Could the outward sign be refused, when thus the inward and spirit...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Gentiles Receive the Holy Spirit Acts 10:34-48 The address with which Peter answered the centurion's inquiry was largely a recapitulation of th...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The story of Cornelius is remarkable. In himself, as Luke tells us, he was "a devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, who gave much a...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. (45) And they of the circumcision which believed were astoni...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Can any man forbid water ,.... The use of his river, or bath, or what conveniency he may have for baptizing persons: which shows, that it required a...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized , &c. Peter, yielding to the force of evidence, however contrary to his former preju...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Gentiles also must now hear the gospel. The heart of Cornelius, a Roman centurion, had been already prepared by God, having a wholesome, genuine fear...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Effect of Peter's Sermon. 44 While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghos...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

This question, as Acts 8:36 , is without question, and denies that any can forbid water, that is, in order to baptize such as these. As if the apo...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter's Speech To Cornelius And His Household and Friends (10:34-48).
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter recognised this immediately, and seizing the moment asked ‘the circumcised' whether they could think of any reason why these uncircumcised Gent...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 10:34 . The word for respecter of persons , προσωπολήπτης, is found only here in the N.T., though προσωποληψία occurs in...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Acts 10:1 . Cornelius, a centurion. The person to whom St. Peter is sent to preach the gospel is described by name, Cornelius. By his occupation,...
The Biblical Illustrator

There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion. Peter’s vision The record of the advance of the young Church gives in quick...
The Biblical Illustrator

And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting. Peter at Caesarea We welcome his revelation that the grace of God has so boundless a reach; th...
The Biblical Illustrator

While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the Word. Peter’s preaching I. The effects of Peter’s preaching....
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Acts 10:1 Now there was (two last words in italics) for there was (in roman), A.V. and T.R.; Cornelius by name for called...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The effect of the sermon:
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Can any man forbid water that these should not be baptized which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 11:15-17 ; Acts 15:8 ; Acts 15:9 ; Acts 8:12 ; Acts 8:36 ; Genesis 17:24-26 ; Romans 10:12 ; Romans 4:11
Wells of Living Water Commentary

After His Resurrection Acts 10:38-48 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As introductory to what shall follow, we wish to call attention to the fact that the e...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, who have received the Holy Ghost? — He does not say they have the baptism of the Spiri...

⁴⁷ Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?

Related Commentaries of Acts 10:47

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Acts 10:47