[h=3]Acts 19:6
[/h]King James Version (KJV)
[SUP]6 [/SUP]And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
Who were they talking to? Themselves? Why the tongues?
Also Acts 10:46 Who were the gentiles speaking to? They were in their own land, among their own kindred.
So these two groups prophesied to themselves in another language, thus showing the works of God.
O. K. - That lines up with I Corinthians.
Acts 19
Twelve Disciples of John the Baptist
1While Apollos was in Corinth, Paul traveled through the interior regions and came to Ephesus. He found some disciplesa 2and asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed? ”b
“No,” they told him, “we haven’t even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”c
3“Then what baptism were you baptized with? ” he asked them.
“With John’s baptism,” they replied.
4Paul said, “John baptized with a baptism of repentance,e telling the people that they should believe in the One who would come after him,
that is, in Jesus.”
5When they heard this,
they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 6 And when Paul had laid his hands ong them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began to speak in other
languages and to prophesy.h 7Now there were about 12 men in all. - Holman
.....
so, they were baptized in water, in the Name of Jesus (now that they knew His Name, having had an incomplete knowledge of Who the Messiah was, they clearly were not present when He walked the region, and were not at Pentecost).
then Paul laid hands on them and the Holy Spirit came on them (Apostles could do that
)
and they began to speak in other languages, and to prophesy.
they were evidently JEWS
, since they had been baptized with John's baptism
- though we don't know enough about them, except they were an isolated community of 12.
here's old Matthew Henry (dead seminary type guy?):
They did believe in the Son of God; but Paul enquires whether they had received the Holy Ghost,-whether they believed in the spirit, whose operations on the minds of men, for conviction, conversion, and comfort, were revealed some time after the doctrine of Jesus being the Christ,-whether they had been acquainted with, and had admitted, this revelation? This was not all; extraordinary gifts of the Holy Ghost were conferred upon the apostles and other disciples presently after Christ's ascension, which was frequently repeated upon occasion; had they participated in these gifts? "Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed? Have you had that seal of the truth of Christ's doctrine in yourselves?"
We are not now to expect any such extraordinary gifts as they had then. The canon of the New Testament being long since completed and ratified, we depend upon that as the most sure word of prophecy. But there are graces of the Spirit given to all believers, which are as earnests to them, 2 Co. 1:22; 5:5; Eph. 1:13, 14. Now it concerns us all who profess the Christian faith seriously to enquire whether we have received the Holy Ghost or not. The Holy Ghost is promised to all believers, to all petitioners (Lu. 11:13); but many are deceived in this matter, thinking they have received the Holy Ghost when really they have not.
As there are pretenders to the gifts of the Holy Ghost, so there are to his graces and comforts; we should therefore strictly examine ourselves, Have we received the Holy Ghost since we believed?