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See Acts 8:39; 10:48; 16:14-15, 33; 22:16.

Philip was a deacon (Acts 6:5), whom both parties consider to have been commissioned to baptize, and futhermore he was an evangelist (Acts 21:8) Ananius was a disciple who received an express command fron God (Acts 9:10-11, 15). It is not mentioned who baptized the Family of Cornelius; Peter himself was present there, and thus, there was no emergency. Baptism was administered in obediance to a command, and thus whoever baptized was commissioned to do so.