Acts 2:1-13 - Pentecost And The Coming Of The Holy Spirit

¹ In the course of the Festival at the close of the Harvest the disciples had all met together, ² When suddenly there came from the heavens a noise like that of a strong wind rushing by; it filled the whole house in which they were sitting. ³ Then there appeared tongues of what seemed to be flame, separating, so that one settled on each of them; ⁴ And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with strange 'tongues' as the Spirit prompted their utterances.

⁵ Now there were then staying in Jerusalem religious Jews from every country in the world; ⁶ And, when this sound was heard, numbers of people collected, in the greatest excitement, because each of them heard the disciples speaking in his own language. ⁷ They were utterly amazed, and kept asking in astonishment: "What! Are not all these men who are speaking Galileans? ⁸ Then how is it that we each of us hear them in our own native language? ⁹ Some of us are Parthians, some Medes, some Elamites; and some of us live in Mesopotamia, in Judea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Roman Asia, ¹⁰ In Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and the districts of Libya adjoining Cyrene; some of us are visitors from Rome, ¹¹ Either Jews by birth or converts, and some are Cretans and Arabians--yet we all alike hear them speaking in our own tongues of the great things that God has done." ¹² They were all utterly amazed and bewildered. "What does it mean?" they asked one another. ¹³ But there were some who said with a sneer: "They have had too much new wine."