Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV For this reason, too, did the apostles, collecting the sheep which had perished of the house of Israel, and discoursing to them from the Scriptures, prove that this crucified Jesus was the Christ, the Son of the living God; and they persuaded a great multitude, who, however, [already] possessed the fear of God. And there were, in one day, baptized three, and four, and five thousand men.[339] Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I And in the Acts of the Apostles you will find this, word for word, "Those then who received his word were baptized; "[205]