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Did ye receive the Holy Spirit when ye believed? (ei pneuma hagion elabete pisteusanteṡ). This use of Pi in a direct question occurs in Act 1:6, is not according to the old Greek idiom, but is common in the lxx and the N.T. as in Luk 13:23 which see (Robertson, Grammar, p. 916). Apparently Paul was suspicious of the looks or conduct of these professed disciples. The first aorist active participle pisteusantes is simultaneous with the second aorist active indicative elabete and refers to the same event.
Nay, we did not so much as hear whether the Holy Spirit was (All' oude ei pneuma hagion estin ēkousamen). The reply of these ignorant disciples is amazing. They probably refer to the time of their baptism and mean that, when baptized, they did not hear whether (ei in indirect question) the Holy Spirit was (estin retained as in Joh 7:39). Plain proof that they knew John’s message poorly.