Acts 2:1-11

¹In the course of the Festival at the close of the Harvest the disciples had all met together,

²when suddenly there came from the heavens a noise like a strong wind rushing by; it filled the whole house in which they were sitting.

³Then there appeared tongues of what seemed to be flame, separating, so that one settled on each of them;

⁴and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in different languages as the Spirit prompted their utterances.

⁵Now there were then staying in Jerusalem religious Jews from every country in the world;

⁶and, 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.

⁷They were utterly amazed, and kept asking in astonishment, “What! Are not all these people who are speaking Galileans?

⁸Then how is it that we each of us hear them in our own language?

⁹Some of us are Parthians, some Medes, some Elamites; and some of us live in Mesopotamia, in Judea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Roman Asia,

¹⁰in Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and the districts of Libya adjoining Cyrene; some of us are visitors from Rome,

¹¹either Jews by birth or converts, and some are Cretans and Arabians — yet we all alike hear them speaking in our own languages of the great things that God has done.”