Acts 19:6

"And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied"Paul had laid his hands upon them" Again we find spiritual gifts being bestowed through the hands of an apostle (Acts 8:17). The very fact that Paul laid his hands upon them after their baptism seems to reinforce the conclusion that when Paul was asking them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit?", he was asking them if they received the miraculous manifestations of the Spirit. In the early church, when the New Testament had not yet been written, it would make perfect sense for spiritual gifts to be common among new Christians, for they immediately needed revelation from God on so many topics and subjects. "They spake with tongues, and prophesied"The verbs are imperfect in tense, implying continuous exercise of the gifts" (Reese p. 673). We should remember that prophesy (the ability to speak by inspiration) went hand in hand with the gift of tongues. If one was present, then so was the other (1 Corinthians 14:1-3; 26). When the spiritual gifts were truly operational, we never find. congregation just having the gift of tongues. If. congregation had true tongue speakers (people who could speak miraculously in foreign languages they had never studied Acts 2:6); then it also had prophets.