When that sound came, a crowd quickly gathered, startled because each one heard the disciples speaking in his own language.

Stunned and amazed, they asked, "All of these people who are speaking are Galileans, aren't they?

So how is it that each one of us hears them speaking in his own native language:

While they were speaking to the people, the priests, the commander of the Temple guards, and the Sadducees came to them.

So they were convinced by him. After calling in the apostles and beating them, they again ordered them to stop speaking in the name of Jesus and let them go.

But they could neither refute the wisdom nor withstand the Spirit by which he kept speaking.

So they secretly got some men to say, "We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God."

So he freely circulated among them in Jerusalem, speaking courageously in the name of the Lord.

because they heard them speaking in foreign languages and praising God. Then Peter said,

Now the people who were scattered by the persecution that started because of Stephen went as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the word to no one except Jews.

After Paul and Barnabas had finished speaking, James responded, "Brothers, listen to me:

Because they had been prevented by the Holy Spirit from speaking the word in Asia, Paul and Timothy went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia.

He had been instructed in the Lord's way, and with spiritual fervor he kept speaking and teaching accurately about Jesus, although he knew only about John's baptism.

On the first day of the week, when we had met to break bread, Paul began to address the people. Since he intended to leave the next day, he went on speaking until midnight.

A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in a window, began to sink off into a deep sleep as Paul kept speaking longer and longer. Overcome by sleep, he fell down from the third floor and was picked up dead.

When they heard him speaking to them in Hebrew, they became even more quiet, and he continued:

"He told me, "I'm Jesus from Nazareth, whom you are persecuting.' The men who were with me saw the light but didn't understand the voice of the one who was speaking to me.