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Acts 2:2-14

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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.”
12They were all utterly amazed and bewildered. “What does it mean?” they asked one another.
13But there were some who said with a sneer, “They have had too much new wine.”
14Then Peter, surrounded by the eleven other apostles, stood up, and, raising his voice, addressed the crowd. “People of Judea,” he began, “and all you who are staying in Jerusalem, let me tell you what this means. Mark well my words.

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