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Acts 10:44-46KJVPrimary
44 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 astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost. 46 For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,
Why this matters

Jewish believers knew Gentiles received the Holy Ghost because they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God.

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Acts 10:47-48KJVPrimary
47 Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we? 48 And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.
Why this matters

Peter commands Spirit-filled Gentiles to be baptized in the name of the Lord.

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Acts 19:1-6KJVPrimary
1 And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples, 2 He said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. 3 And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John's baptism. 4 Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus. 5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 6 And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
Why this matters

Disciples with incomplete understanding are rebaptized in Jesus’ name and receive the Holy Ghost with tongues.

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Acts 19:6KJVPrimary
And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
Why this matters

When the Holy Ghost comes on the Ephesian disciples, they speak with tongues and prophesy.

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Acts 2:1-4KJVPrimary
1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Why this matters

At Pentecost all were filled with the Holy Ghost and spoke in other tongues as the Spirit gave utterance.

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Acts 2:33KJVPrimary
Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
Why this matters

The right hand marks Jesus’ exaltation and His pouring out of the promised Spirit.

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Acts 2:38KJVPrimary
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Why this matters

Peter commands repentance, baptism in Jesus Christ’s name for remission, and reception of the Holy Ghost.

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Acts 2:38-39KJVPrimary
38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
Why this matters

The gift of the Holy Ghost is promised to repentant believers across generations and distance.

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Acts 22:16KJVPrimary
And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
Why this matters

Ananias tells Saul to be baptized, wash away his sins, and call on the Lord’s name.

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Acts 8:16KJVPrimary
(For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)
Why this matters

Samaritan believers had been baptized specifically in the name of the Lord Jesus.

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John 14:16-18KJVPrimary
16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. 18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
Why this matters

Jesus promises another Comforter who already dwells with the disciples and will be in them, then says He will come to them.

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John 3:5KJVPrimary
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Why this matters

Jesus specifies the new birth as birth of water and Spirit.

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Luke 24:46-47KJVPrimary
46 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: 47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
Why this matters

The risen Christ defines the saving message as His death and resurrection proclaimed with repentance and remission in His name.

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Matthew 28:19KJVPrimary
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Why this matters

Jesus commands disciples to baptize into the singular name of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

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Romans 6:3-4KJVPrimary
3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Why this matters

Believers enter Christ’s death and burial through baptism and rise to walk in new life.

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Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
Why this matters

Paul’s rhetorical question concerns the distributed public gift of tongues, which is not given to every member in the same role.

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1 Peter 3:20-21KJVPrimary
20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. 21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:
Why this matters

Peter says baptism now saves as an appeal of a good conscience through Jesus Christ’s resurrection, not as physical washing.

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Acts 11:15-17KJVPrimary
15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning. 16 Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost. 17 Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?
Why this matters

Peter equates the Gentiles’ experience with the church’s beginning and with Jesus’ promise of Spirit baptism.

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Acts 8:14-17KJVPrimary
14 Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John: 15 Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost: 16 (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) 17 Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.
Why this matters

Samaritan believers were baptized but had not yet received the Holy Ghost, showing these experiences can be distinguished.

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Colossians 2:12KJVPrimary
Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
Why this matters

Baptism is burial and resurrection with Christ through faith in God’s working.

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Acts 1:4-5KJVPrimary
4 And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. 5 For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.
Why this matters

Jesus commands the disciples to wait for the Father’s promise, identified as baptism with the Holy Ghost.

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Acts 16:30-33KJVPrimary
30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? 31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. 32 And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house. 33 And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.
Why this matters

The jailer’s belief is formed by hearing the word and immediately expressed in baptism.

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John 3:3KJVPrimary
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Why this matters

Jesus says entrance into God’s kingdom requires a birth from above.

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Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
Why this matters

Paul commands the church not to forbid speaking with tongues.

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