2And when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in the same place. ²And suddenly a sound like a violent rushing wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. ³And divided^a tongues like fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. ⁴And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages^b as the Spirit gave them ability to speak out.

⁵Now there were Jews residing in Jerusalem, devout men from every nation under heaven. ⁶And when^* this sound occurred, the crowd gathered and was in confusion, because each one was hearing them speaking in his own language. ⁷And they were astounded and astonished, saying, “Behold, are not all these who are speaking Galileans? ⁸And how do we hear, each one of us, in our own native language?^c ⁹Parthians and Medes and Elamites and those residing in Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,^d ¹⁰Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya toward Cyrene, and the Romans who were in town, ¹¹both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs—we hear them speaking in our own languages the great deeds of God!” ¹²And all were amazed and greatly perplexed, saying to one another,^e “What can this mean?”^f ¹³But others jeered and^* said, “They are full of sweet new wine!”

Peter’s Sermon on the Day of Pentecost

¹⁴But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and declared to them, “Judean men, and all those who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and pay attention to my words! ¹⁵For these men are not drunk, as you assume, because it is the third hour of the day. ¹⁶But this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel:

¹⁷‘And it will be in the last days,’ God says,

‘I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh,

and your sons and your daughters will prophesy,

and your young men will see visions,

and your old men will dream dreams.

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Acts 2:4: And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Footnotes

aOr perhaps “distributed”
bOr “tongues”
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“happened”)
cLiterally “our own language in which we were born”
dA reference to the Roman province of Asia (modern Asia Minor)
eLiterally “one to the other”
fLiterally “what does this want to be”
*Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“jeered”) has been translated as a finite verb