Acts 10:47
Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?
KJV
μήτι τὸ ὕδωρ δύναται κωλῦσαί τις τοῦ μὴ βαπτισθῆναι τούτους οἵτινες τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον ἔλαβον ὡς καὶ ἡμεῖς;
Greek NT
Tunc respondit Petrus : Numquid aquam quis prohibere potest ut non baptizentur hi qui Spiritum Sanctum acceperunt sicut et nos ?
Vulgate
Can any man forbid the water, that these should not be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit as well as we?
ASV
Then Peter answered: Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, who have received the Holy Ghost, as well as we?
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
βαπτίζω
baptizo
verb · 77×
δύναμαι
dunamai
verb · 209×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κωλύω
koluo
verb · 23×
λαμβάνω
lambano
verb · 259×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
μήτι
meti
particle · 17×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
πνεῦμα
pneuma
noun · 379×
τὶς
tis
indefinite_pronoun · 527×
ἅγιος
agios
adjective · 233×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅστις
ostis
relative_pronoun · 146×
ὕδωρ
udor
noun · 76×
ὡς
os
adverb · 502×
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
minor
SBLGNT: δύναται κωλῦσαί | WH/Treg/NIV: δύναται κωλῦσαί | RP: κωλῦσαί δύναται
- δύναται κωλῦσαί — SBLGNT
- δύναται κωλῦσαί — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- κωλῦσαί δύναται — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: ὡς | WH/Treg/NIV: ὡς | RP: καθὼς
- ὡς — SBLGNT
- ὡς — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- καθὼς — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Themes
Doctrines that cite this verse
Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Doctrine of the rest of the apostles. 1. The Apostle Peter, therefore, after the resurrection of the Lord, and His assumption into the heavens, being desirous of filling up the number of the twelve apostles, and in electing into the place of Judas any substitute who should be chosen by God, thus addressed those who were present: Men [and] brethren, this Scripture must needs hav…
1. Little children who go daily to their teachers receive their lessons, and repeat them, and never cease from this kind of acquisition, but sometimes employ nights as well as days, and this they are compelled to do for perishable and transient things. Now we do not ask of you who have come to age such toil as you require of your children; for not every day, but two days only i…
Baptism in Water: The ordinance of baptism by immersion is commanded in the Scriptures. All who repent and believe on Christ as Savior and Lord are to be baptized. Holy Communion: The Lord's Supper, consisting of the elements — bread and the fruit of the vine — is the symbol expressing our sharing the divine nature of our Lord Jesus Christ, a memorial of His suffering and death…
Cross-references
- Acts 8:36 — And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?
- Acts 8:36 — And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?
- Acts 11:15 — And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning.
- Acts 11:17 — 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?
- Acts 15:8 — And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;
- Acts 15:8 — And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;
- Gen 17:24 — And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.
- Heb 6:2 — Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
- John 20:22 — And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
- Matt 28:19 — Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
- Rom 10:12 — For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.