Acts 9:17

"And Ananias departed, and entered into the house; and laying his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, who appeared unto thee in the way which thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mayest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit"Brother Saul" Seeing that Saul was not. Christian until he was baptized, the word brother "must then be no more than. term of endearment intended to allay Paul's fears" (Reese p. 360). In addition, Ananias and Saul were already brothers in the sense that both were of the Jewish race (Romans 9:3). "Filled with the Holy Spirit" We have already seen that the Holy Spirit was imparted through the laying on of the hands of the apostles (Acts 8:18), and Ananias was not an apostle. Some say the above expression refers to the gift of the Holy Spirit mentioned in Acts 2:38. We know that the expression "full or filled with the Holy Spirit" can refer to. non-miraculous influence, such as being spiritually minded or full of the fruit of the Spirit (Acts 6:5). We are not told exactly when Paul was filled or baptized with the Holy Spirit in the miraculous sense, but he does insist that he did not learn the gospel message from men (Galatians 1:11). In view of Acts 8:18. I must shy away from the view that Saul received the Holy Spirit through the laying on of Ananias' hands. It appears to me that the Holy Spirit came upon him sometime shortly after his baptism--for He is preaching by inspiration soon afterwards (Acts 9:20).