ancient Israel, so now it produced “prophetic speech,” but “of a peculiar kind.”387 Luke explicitly uses tongues to identify the activity of the Spirit of prophecy (2:17–18), albeit with a particular emphasis on crossing cultural boundaries. Presumably, the prophetic aspect of the Spirit’s empowerment that he articulates in general includes and could be evidenced by any speech inspired by the Spirit or perhaps by prophet-like miracles as well, provided they testified about Jesus. But in view of his
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