[zeeba neighba]

What bible do you read anyway?

.Acts 2

38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation. 41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

[annalex]

I prefer the Douay Rheims as the closest to the original languages and containing the entire Christian Canon. Nothing in the passage you cite contradicts the fact that the Holy Ghost is given us through the sacraments of the Church and not directly.