also experience these within themselves. Many scholars feel that the gift of tongues mentioned in 1 Corinthians 12 may have been an ecstatic prayer language. On Pentecost, however, the supernatural gift of tongues enabled the 120 believers to speak in languages readily understood by pilgrims present in Jerusalem for the festival. Was this gift of languages necessary? Perhaps Aramaic or Greek would have done the job just as well, but God, at least at first, chose to let the crowds hear His word in