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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 19:4

‘And Paul said, “John baptised with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on him who would come after him, that is, on Jesus.” '

Then Paul explained to them that John's baptism had pointed ahead to the need for a change of mind and heart about sin, so that they might receive the forgiveness of sins (Mark 1:4). And he reminded them that John had also pointed forward to the Coming One, calling on all his disciples to believe on Him (Mark 1:7; John 1:23). This Coming One, he informed them, was Jesus. So while Apollos was declaring that the Messiah was Jesus in Corinth, this group of disciples were learning the same truth from Paul in Ephesus.

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