gift? How does the Bible describe it? Do people still speak in tongues today? Many people claim to speak in tongues today, but we have to ask whether what they are doing matches the gift we find in the Bible. I will argue from Acts and 1 Corinthians that the gift of tongues is the gift of speaking in human languages. Therefore, tongue-speaking is not, as many today believe, speaking with ecstatic utterances, that is to say, speaking words with no discernible code or linguistic pattern.