Did You Receive the Holy Spirit When You Believed?

limplam: The incident with apallus and the incident with these disciples that paul encounters in ephesus, need to be under stood in their relationship to each other. There's no indication that john the baptist baptized them the way it's phrased; they were baptized into john's baptism. In fac, the text tells us that their knowledge of john's baptism was insufficient. Limplam: More likely scenario here is not that they were direct disciples of john the baptists, but rather that they had been baptized by disciples of john a generation removed.