“...indicating by these words, that he would not have come to them unless he had been commanded. Neither, for a like reason, would he have given them baptism so readily, had he not heard them prophesying when the Holy Ghost rested upon them. And therefore did he exclaim, "Can any man forbid water, that these should not…”
Irenaeus, 3th c. — Against Heresies Book III
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47Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?
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45And 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.
46For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,
— Acts 10:47 —
48And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.