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19 1, 7 While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul’s overland journey brought him back to Ephesus. He encountered a group of about a dozen disciples there.[a]

Paul: Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you became believers?

John’s Disciples: We’ve never heard about the Holy Spirit.

Paul: Well then, what kind of ceremonial washing through baptism[b] did you receive?

John’s Disciples: We received the ritual cleansing of baptism[c] that John taught.

Paul: John taught the truth—that people should be baptized with renewed thinking and turn toward God. But he also taught that the people should believe in the One whose way he was preparing, that is, Jesus the Anointed.

As soon as they heard this, they were baptized, this time in the name of our Lord Jesus. When Paul laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them in the same way the original disciples experienced at Pentecost: they spoke in tongues and prophesied.

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Footnotes

  1. 19:1, 7 Verses 1 and 7 have been combined to help the reader understand the continuity of the passage.
  2. 19:3 Literally, immersion, a rite of initiation and purification
  3. 19:3 Literally, immersion, an act to show repentance

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