Read a little further in Acts 16... like through 33. ''he and his whole household were baptised.''
Acts 16: 15 "After she and her household had been baptized..
***Read a little further in Acts 16... like through 33. ''he and his whole household were baptised.'' ***
Yet Paul makes it clear he was not sent to baptize even though he did.
1Cr 1:17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect.
Also, we have the household of Cornelius.. who received the Holy Spirit before he was baptized.
Act 10:43 To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.
Act 10:44 ¶ While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word.
Act 10:45 And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Peter then asks those who came with him if any of them could forbid them being baptized because he had no direction from God in this matter.
So, can an unsaved man have the Holy Spirit of God ?