1 Corinthians 12–14 there is no other reference to speaking in tongues in the New Testament. What is the explanation of this gift, and can it be exercised today? Although some writers have distinguished between the instances in Acts which were clearly in known languages and the experience of the Corinthians in 1 Corinthians 12–14, there does not seem to be adequate basis for this distinction, as the same expressions are used in both places. The term “unknown tongue” as in the King James Version in