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,
Acts 2
Acts 2:1-9