Acts 2:3

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Acts 2:3

And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.

Cloven

Revelation 14:6

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Revelation 11:3

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Cloven

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

The Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they all have

the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them.

Confuse, O Lord, divide their tongues,

For I have seen violence and strife in the city.

and to another the effecting of

miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another the

distinguishing of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues.

And I saw another angel flying in midheaven, having an eternal gospel to preach to those who live on the earth, and to every nation and tribe and tongue and people;

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Then I said,
“Woe is me, for I am ruined!
Because I am a man of unclean lips,
And I live among a people of unclean lips;
For my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.”

“Is not My word like fire?” declares the Lord, “and like a hammer which shatters a rock?

“But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner’s fire and like fullers’ soap.

“As for me, I baptize you with water for repentance, but He who is coming after me is mightier than I, and I am not fit to remove His sandals; He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.

They said to one another, “Were not our hearts burning within us while He was speaking to us on the road, while He was explaining the Scriptures to us?”

And the tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by

hell.

And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”

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At this time Peter stood up in the midst of the brethren (a gathering of about one hundred and twenty persons was there together), and said,

The Spirit of the Lord will rest on Him,
The spirit of wisdom and understanding,
The spirit of counsel and strength,
The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.

But Jesus answering said to him, “Permit it at this time; for in this way it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he *permitted Him.

John testified saying, “I have seen the Spirit descending as a dove out of heaven, and He remained upon Him.