Did everyone?

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Originally Posted by stmatthew

It is not I that is ignoring what is plainly stated. You have read into this something that is not there. How many ways can one view it when it plainly states that the Holy Ghost had not fallen on them, but then goes on to clarify that after prayer the RECEIVED the Holy Ghost.

Act 8:15 Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost:
Act 8:16 (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)
Act 8:17 Then laid they [their] hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.

I am sorry, but either they didn't have it, and received it, or they didn't have it, and received it.

What they did not have was whatever operation of the Spirit which takes place when the Spirit "falls". The Spirit fell, came, and filled men of the OT as well. These instances were not regenerative what makes you think they are here?