Acts 1:5
“For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.”
King James Version
Jesus promised the disciples they would be baptized with the Holy Ghost within days. At Pentecost, about ten days later, it happened.
Fulfillment References
Acts 2:1-4 Acts 11:15-16 Matthew 3:11 Luke 24:49
How Traditions Read This Prophecy
Apostolic (Oneness) Pentecostal'Not many days hence.' Jesus set a near date, and it came about ten days later at Pentecost. Peter later saw the same baptism fall on Cornelius's house and remembered these very words (Acts 11:15-16). He called it 'the like gift' (11:17), and he knew it because 'they heard them speak with tongues' (10:46). It was a baptism, not a slow process: they were filled, and they spoke.
JewishNo traditional Jewish reading.
CatholicFulfilled at Pentecost. The Spirit is given sacramentally in Confirmation.
ProtestantFulfilled at Pentecost. Most non-Pentecostal Protestants hold that believers now receive the Spirit at conversion.
OrthodoxFulfilled at Pentecost, and given in Chrismation.
DispensationalFulfilled at Pentecost, the birth of the church.
AcademicActs 1:5 repeats the Baptist's saying (Luke 3:16) on Jesus' lips, and Acts 11:16 quotes it again.
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Why it was written“But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name” (John 20:31). Peter told the first crowd how to begin: “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost” (Acts 2:38).
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