Atti 19:4

4 E Paolo disse: Giovanni battezzò col battesimo di ravvedimento, dicendo al popolo che credesse in colui che veniva dopo di lui, cioè, in Gesù.

Atti 19:4 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 19:4

Then said Paul
In reply to their answer, understanding them that they were baptized by John, he takes it up, and gives an account of John's baptism: showing how agreeable it was, and that it was the same baptism with the baptism of Christ, being administered in his name:

John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance;
which required repentance antecedent to it, and was a fruit and effect, and so an evidence of it:

saying unto the people;
the people of the Jews, the common people, the multitude that attended on his ministry:

that they should believe on him, which should come after him,
that is, on Jesus Christ; so that he preached faith in Christ, as well as repentance towards God; and made the one as well as the other a necessary prerequisite unto baptism; which shows, that his baptism and Christian baptism are the same.

Atti 19:4 In-Context

2 Riceveste voi lo Spirito Santo quando credeste? Ed essi a lui: Non abbiamo neppur sentito dire che ci sia lo Spirito Santo.

3 Ed egli disse loro: Di che battesimo siete dunque stati battezzati? Ed essi risposero: Del battesimo di Giovanni.

4 E Paolo disse: Giovanni battezzò col battesimo di ravvedimento, dicendo al popolo che credesse in colui che veniva dopo di lui, cioè, in Gesù.

5 Udito questo, furon battezzati nel nome del Signor Gesù;

6 e dopo che Paolo ebbe loro imposto le mani, lo Spirito Santo scese su loro, e parlavano in altre lingue, e profetizzavano.