Acts 2:1-9

¹When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in the same place.

²Suddenly there came from heaven a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

³There appeared to them tongues like fire that were distributed, and they sat upon each one of them.

⁴They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them to speak.

⁵Now there were Jews who were living in Jerusalem, godly men, from every nation under heaven.

⁶When this sound was heard, the multitude came together and was confused because everyone heard them speaking in his own language.

⁷They were amazed and marveled; they said, “Really, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

⁸Why is it that we are hearing them, each in our own language in which we were born?

⁹Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and those who live in Mesopotamia, in Judea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia,