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NASB | Acts 2:38 Peter said to them, "Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 2:38 And Peter said to them, "Repent [change your old way of thinking, turn from your sinful ways, accept and follow Jesus as the Messiah] and be baptized, each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ because of the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. |
Subject: Repent and Baptism for same number? |
Bible Note: Greetings Disciplerami! I just wanted to be clear about what I objected to in Acts 2:38. Concerning your claim that I have a problem with the Greek text, this is not true. I have a problem with your interpretation of the Greek text. The text is perfectly clear. In English, if I want to make a parenthetical statement (such as this one), I can include it in brackets or seperate it from the rest of the sentence with commas. The Greek language had an even more effective way of doing this, I could change the person and number of a clause, which changes the very form of the words themselves, and accompish what English can only do very clumsly. This is what Acts 2:38 does, as Dr. Robertson also affirms. I have no problem with the text, just your insistence that Peter ignored the rules of grammar! :-) You still haven't addressed the Acts 10 question. If you interpretation of Acts 2:38 is correct, then those in Acts 10 could not have received 'the gift of the Holy Spirit' without both repenting and be baptized. Yet, they did. Why? Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |