life into a once cowardly disciple and created a new man who now has the gift of bold speech. The richness of Luke’s account of Pentecost yields other layers of interpretation. We, in church listening to this story, resemble the crowd in our multiple interpretations of so strange and wonderful an event. For one thing, we recognize that Luke’s story of the gift of the Spirit differs from the account in John 20:22. Luke seems to have separated into three events what had once been regarded as one event