Empowered by the Holy Spirit | Two Minute Daily Devotional

David Hathaway · Aug 19, 2026 · 2m

Now, we know there was already a church in Ephesus, but Paul found some new disciples there. He asked them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” They were clearly converts; they were Christians.

But they answered, “No, we haven’t even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”

It seems quite obvious to me that much of what they had heard had come through Apollos. And because Apollos had come from Alexandria, he apparently didn't know what had happened on the Day of Pentecost.

So Paul explains in verse 4 that John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. John told the people to believe…