QUESTION: Would you kindly show me how the Samaritans were baptized, since they did not receive it of Christ or His apostles?
ANSWER: Please read John, chapter four. In verse forty-one we see that Jesus taught the Samaritans and, in verse forty-two, they came to believe that He “is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.” That their belief in Christ resulted in baptism cannot be denied (John 3:26; John 4:1-2). Also in Acts 8:5-6, we see Philip preaching to the people of Samaria. Then in verse twelve, we find them being baptized. In verses fourteen and twenty-five, Luke tells us that the apostles, Peter and John, also preached to the Samaritans, undoubtedly in fulfillment of the prophecy of Christ in Acts 1:8, “ye (the apostles) shall be witnesses of me in all Judea, and in Samaria, and to the uttermost part of the earth.”