Acts 19:1-7
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1 While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul traveled through the interior regions and came to Ephesus. He found some disciples 2 and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?”
“No,” they told him, “we haven’t even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”
3 “Then what baptism were you baptized with?” he asked them.
“With John’s baptism,” they replied.
4 Paul said, “John baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people that they should believe in the One who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”
5 When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 6 And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began to speak in other languages and to prophesy. 7 Now there were about 12 men in all.
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Intro: Paul told the Jews at Ephesus that he would come again to Ephesus if the Lord was willing. While Paul was gone to Jerusalem Luke tells us what was happening in Ephesus. Apollos had come to Ephesus and there he was teaching in the synagogue. Aquila and Priscilla heard him teach and found some deficiency in his teaching. They took Apollos aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately. Apollos heard and heeded their word to him and from there the believers in Ephesus sent Apollos to Achaia and Corinth as he desired to go. In Achaia Apollos greatly helped the church and he refuted the Jews publicly and from the Scriptures he showed the Jews that Jesus is the Christ. The scene was set for Paul’s return to Ephesus.
Intro: Paul told the Jews at Ephesus that he would come again to Ephesus if the Lord was willing. While Paul was gone to Jerusalem Luke tells us what was happening in Ephesus. Apollos had come to Ephesus and there he was teaching in the synagogue. Aquila and Priscilla heard him teach and found some deficiency in his teaching. They took Apollos aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately. Apollos heard and heeded their word to him and from there the believers in Ephesus sent Apollos to Achaia and Corinth as he desired to go. In Achaia Apollos greatly helped the church and he refuted the Jews publicly and from the Scriptures he showed the Jews that Jesus is the Christ. The scene was set for Paul’s return to Ephesus.
Possibly the reference to “disciples” in refers to disciples of John the Baptist at Ephesus who had been baptized by John () but were not converted. However, since mathētēs elsewhere in Acts always refers to Christians, it is more likely that the disciples Paul met in Ephesus were indeed Christians but had not experienced the baptism in the Holy Spirit (cf. Horton, Complete Biblical Library, Acts, p.445).
poses some difficult questions. Obviously there is a difference between the baptism of John the Baptist and that of Jesus. Those in Ephesus had prepared themselves with John’s baptism, but they were still part of the old covenant community. (Luke himself made this distinction between Jesus and John in : “The law and the prophets were [proclaimed] until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached.”) Paul invited them to take the new covenantal step: baptism into (eis [1506B]) the name of Jesus. Paul laid his hands upon them, and they received the Spirit, spoke in tongues, and prophesied ().
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