Acts 2:1-18 ▼

1 And in the day of Pentecost being completed, they were all unanimously in one and the same place.

2 And suddenly was a sound from heaven as of a wind moving violently, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

3 And seen to them were tongues divided as fire, and it sat upon each one of them.

4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them to utter.

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

6 And there having been this voice, the multitude came together, and were disturbed, for each one heard them speaking in his own dialect.

7 And all were affected in mind and wondered, saying to one another, Behold, are not these speaking Galileans.

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

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

10 And Phrygia, and Pamphylia, Egypt, and parts of Lybia that near Cyrene, and Romans arriving as strangers, and Jews, and strangers,

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

12 And all were affected in mind, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What may this mean to be?

13 And others mocking said, That they are filled with new wine.

14 And Peter, having stood with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said to them, Men Jews, and all ye dwelling in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and hear ye my words:

15 For not, as ye suppose, are these intoxicated, (for it is the third hour of the day.)

16 But this is that spoken by the prophet Joel;

17 And it shall be in the last days, says God, I pour out from my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your elder dream dreams:

18 And also upon my servants and upon my maids in those days will I pour out from my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: