The Acts of the Apostles (Biblia.com)

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"What Acts aims to do," writes Barclay, "is to give us a series of typical exploits and adventures of the great heroic figures of the early Church. Although the book never says so, from the earliest times Luke has been held to be its writer." If this is so, then Luke wrote both the gospel and Acts with a purpose of showing how the new faith that had begun so humbly in Palestine had expanded. In...

So when the day of Pentecost came round, they were all together in one place; and all of a sudden there came from heaven a sound like that of a violent, rushing wind, and it ﬁlled the whole house where they were sitting. And tongues, like tongues of ﬁre, appeared to them, which distributed themselves among them and settled on each one of them. And they were all ﬁlled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them the power of utterance.

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