Brevity of detail leaves much to readers’ imaginations. Nevertheless, this dramatic encounter between the divine and Jesus’ obedient followers resulted in a conspicuous display of God’s faithfulness. This left other Jewish bystanders puzzling over what to make of it. The inability to “avoid the obvious” may be precisely the function of the narration for ancient and contemporary readers of Acts. Spectacular phenomena allude to OT images of God and God’s presence at the Pentecost event. But readers’