Acts of the Apostles, Chapter 10, verses 44-48
44 the holy Ghost falleth on them, and they are baptizedActs of the Apostles, Chapter 11, verses 1-10
1 Peter, being accused for going in to the Gentiles, 5 maketh his defence11
11:4 Peter laid all things before them - So he did not take it ill to be questioned, nor desire to be treated as infallible.And he answers the more mildly because it related to a point which he had not readily believed himself.
11:5 Being in a trance - Which suspends the use of the outward senses.
John, Chapter 8, verses 21-30
12 He preacheth himself the light of the world, and justifieth his doctrine8
8:23 Ye are - Again he passes over their interruption, and proves what he advanced, Joh 8:21.Of them that are beneath - From the earth.I am of them that are above - Here he directly shows whence he came, even from heaven, and whither he goes.
8:24 If ye believe not that I AM - Here (as in Joh 8:58) our Lord claims the Divine name, I AM, Exo 3:14. But the Jews, as if he had stopped short,and not finished the sentence, answered, Who art thou?
8:25 Even what I say to you from the beginning - The same which I say to you, as it were in one discourse, with one even tenor from the time I first spake to you.
8:26 I have many things to say and to judge of you - I have much to say concerning your inexcusable unbelief: but he that sent me is true - Whether ye believe or no. And I speak the things which I have heard from him - I deliver truly what he hath given me in charge.
8:27 They understood not - That by him that sent him he meant God the Father. Therefore in Joh 8:28-29 he speaks plainly of the Father, and again claims the Divine name, I AM.
8:28 When ye shall have lifted up - On the cross, ye shall know - And so many of them did, that I AM - God over all; and that I do nothing of myself - Being one with the Father.
8:29 The Father hath not left me alone - Never from the moment I came into the world.
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10:44 The Holy Ghost fell on all that were hearing the word - Thus were they consecrated to God, as the first fruits of the Gentiles.And thus did God give a clear and satisfactory evidence, that he had accepted them as well as the Jews.
10:45 The believers of the circumcision - The believing Jews.
10:47 Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, who have received the Holy Ghost? - He does not say they have the baptism of the Spirit; therefore they do not need baptism with water. But just the contrary: if they have received the Spirit, then baptize them with water. How easily is this question decided, if we will take the wordof God for our rule! Either men have received the Holy Ghost or not. If they have not, Repent, saith God, and be baptized, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. If they have, if they are already baptized with the Holy Ghost, then who can forbid water?
10:48 In the name of the Lord - Which implies the Father who anointed him, and the Spirit with which he was anointed to his office.But as the Gentiles had before believed in God the Father, and could not but now believe in the Holy Ghost, under whose powerful influence they were at this very time, there was the less need of taking notice, that they were baptized into the belief and profession of the sacred Three: though doubtless the apostle administered the ordinances in that very form which Christ himself had prescribed.