That’s an option, too.
**That’s an option, too.**
I make the ‘prophesying’ opinion off of more than the lack of an immediate confirming in the following verses. I compare with the other testamonies:
1. Of couse, the tarrying in Jerusalem for the ‘promise of the Father’.
2. The actual pouring out of the Holy Ghost in Acts 2.
3. The conversion of Cornelius and his household.
Peter, and they of the circumcision, realized that the Gentiles had received the same gift for they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God.
10:44 “...the Holy Ghost fell on all them that heard the word.”
10:45 “...on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.”
10:47 “..have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?”
(’received’ here, and ‘receive’ in John 20:22, but the same Greek word)
11:15 “..the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on US at the BEGINNING.”
11:17 “God gave them the like gift as he did unto us who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ..”.
As we can see from those passages, there were several ways to explain the same experience:
‘filled with the Holy Ghost’ (Acts 2:4)
‘the Holy Ghost fell on all them’
‘poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost’
‘received the Holy Ghost’
‘the Holy Ghost fell on them’
‘the like gift’
Peter refers to that Pentecost experience as the ‘beginning’, and that the Gentiles’ experience was the same.
Anyway, that’s a more complete explanation than the one this morning, as I was pressed to get rolling.
God bless.