[Bohemund]

Those select group of people were more than the Apostles so there was no mediator, Apostles or church, between them and the Father's pouring out the Holy Spirit on them and they weren't baptized at that time. The new converts were but not the 120.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I thought the first and second chapters of Acts referred to different events. The 120 were only at the first event.

[blue-duncan]

"Maybe I'm missing something, but I thought the first and second chapters of Acts referred to different events. The 120 were only at the first event"

You are missing something. Chapter 2 : 1,4 "they were all" the same as Chapter 1:13 "And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James [the son] of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas [the brother] of James. These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren. And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)".

Interesting, James and Jude, Jesus' brothers and Mary's sons were there but not as Apostles. They are called disciples as were the women, so I assume based on your reading of this, since they were filled with the Holy Spirit and commissioned at the same time the Apostles were, they could baptize and give the Holy Spirit by the laying on of hands.