# Acts 10:47

> “Can anyone withhold the water to baptize these people? They have received the Holy Spirit just as we have!”

— Acts 10:47, Berean Standard Bible

## On the map

- **Caesarea** (Judea · today Caesarea Maritima) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/caesarea

## When

- c. AD 40-44 (counted from the text)
- Date source: Acts 11:28 announces the famine of Claudius's reign, which Tacitus (Annals XII.43) and Josephus (Antiquities XX.2) put in AD 46-48.

## Who ruled

- **Caligula**, emperor of Rome, AD 37-41 · Source: Suetonius, Caligula; Josephus, Antiquities XVIII-XIX
- **Claudius**, emperor of Rome, AD 41-54 · Source: Suetonius, Claudius; Tacitus, Annals XI-XII
- **Herod Agrippa I**, king of Judea, AD 41-44 · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XVIII.6-XIX.8, which dates his death to AD 44

## What happened

- **Cornelius receives the Spirit** (AD 40)
  A Roman officer and his household receive the Spirit before any Jewish rite. It is the decision the church spends the next chapters trying to understand.

## See also

- Acts 8:36 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/8/36
- Acts 11:15-17 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/11/15
- Romans 10:12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/romans/10/12
- Acts 15:8-9 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/15/8
- Genesis 17:24-26 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/genesis/17/24

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/10/47
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/10
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).