Acts 2:1-11 ▼

1 And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place,

2 and there came suddenly out of the sky a sound as of a violent rushing wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting,

3 and there appeared to them divided tongues, as it were of fire; it also sat on each one of them,

4 and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, according as the Spirit was giving them to declare.

5 And there were Jews dwelling in Jerusalem, devout men from every nation of those under the heaven,

6 and the rumor of this having come, the multitude came together, and was confounded, because they were, each one, hearing them speaking in his proper dialect,

7 and they were all amazed, and wondered, saying to one another, “Behold, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

8 And how do we hear, each in our proper dialect, in which we were born?

9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and those dwelling in Mesopotamia, in Judea also, and Cappadocia, Pontus, and Asia,

10 Phrygia also, and Pamphylia, Egypt, and the parts of Libya that [are] along Cyrene, and the strangers of Rome, both Jews and proselytes,

11 Cretes and Arabians, we heard them speaking the great things of God in our tongues.”