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Acts 11:17

Weymouth NT

»If therefore God gave them the same gift as He gave us when we first believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, why, who was I to be able to thwart God?«

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And all the Jewish believers who had come with Peter were astonished that on the Gentiles also the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out.

»Can any one forbid the use of water, and object to these persons being baptized–men who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did?«

»And,« said Peter, »no sooner had I begun to speak than the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just as He fell upon us at the first.

But if it is really from God, you will be powerless to put them down–lest perhaps you find yourselves to be actually fighting against God.«