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NASB | 1 Corinthians 12:30 All do not have gifts of healings, do they? All do not speak with tongues, do they? All do not interpret, do they? |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 12:30 Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? |
Subject: Do holy people have to speak in tongues? |
Bible Note: Greetings algumwood! Welcome to studybible forumsville! I think I could agree with all you are saying here, except for your take on Acts 19:2. I also believe these 12 disciples here were true believers. They would not have been called “disciples” unless they were in fact true believers. However, there is no way they could be true believers unless they had also received the Holy Spirit (Joh 7:39, Rom 8:9, Rom 8:16, 2Co 1:22, Eph 1:13, 1Jo 5:10). These disciples probably came to believe under the teaching of Apollos, which would have definitely been after the cross. So according to John 7:39, they HAD to have received the Holy Spirit also. Their answer in Act 19:2 was one of ignorance, and not necessarily one of truth. This lines up with Acts 18:24-28 that gives some background on some of Apollos’s earlier teaching, in which these disciples were probably under. Apollos was not aware that Jesus’s death and resurrection was something that had already happened, rather than just a promise, until he was told different by Aquila and Priscilla (Acts 18:26). This would explain these disciples answer here when they said they had not even heard of the Holy Spirit. They had not heard of the Holy Spirit because Apollos’s was not aware that the Holy Spirit had been given. What they received here was not the indwelling of the Holy Spirit as Jesus’s disciples received in John 20:22, and they no doubt received when they believed. What they received was the filling of the Holy Spirit as Jesus’s disciples received in Acts 2:4 and the Samaritans received in Acts 8:14-17. retxar |