Acts 8:36

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8:36 Now as they were going along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said, “Look, there is water! What is to stop me¹ from being baptized?”

Acts 10:47

Context
10:47 “No one can withhold the water for these people to be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did,² can he?”³

Acts 16:6

Context

Paul’s Vision of the Macedonian Man

16:6 They went through the region of Phrygia⁴ and Galatia,⁵ having been prevented⁶ by the Holy Spirit from speaking the message⁷ in the province of Asia.⁸

[8:36] ¹tn Or “What prevents me.” The rhetorical question means, “I should get baptized, right?”

[10:47] ²tn Grk “just as also we.” The auxiliary verb in English must be supplied. This could be either “have” (NIV, NRSV) or “did” (NASB). “Did” is preferred here because the comparison Peter is making concerns not just the fact of the present possession of the Spirit (“they received the Spirit we now possess”), but the manner in which the Gentiles in Cornelius’ house received the Spirit (“they received the Spirit in the same manner we did [on the day of Pentecost]”).

[10:47] ³tn The Greek construction anticipates a negative reply which is indicated in the translation by the ‘tag’ question, “can he?” The question is rhetorical. Peter was saying these Gentiles should be baptized since God had confirmed they were his.

[16:6] ³sn Phrygia was a district in central Asia Minor west of Pisidia.

[16:6] ⁴sn Galatia refers to either (1) the region of the old kingdom of Galatia in the central part of Asia Minor (North Galatia), or (2) the Roman province of Galatia, whose principal cities in the 1st century were Ancyra and Pisidian Antioch (South Galatia). The exact extent and meaning of this area has been a subject of considerable controversy in modern NT studies.

[16:6] ⁵tn Or “forbidden.”

[16:6] ⁶tn Or “word.”

[16:6] ⁷tn Grk “Asia”; in the NT this always refers to the Roman province of Asia, made up of about one-third of the west and southwest end of modern Asia Minor. Asia lay to the west of the region of Phrygia and Galatia. The words “the province of” are supplied to indicate to the modern reader that this does not refer to the continent of Asia.