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Acts 2:7-18

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7So they were amazed and marveled, saying to one another: “Hey, aren't all these who are speaking Galileans?
8So how can each of us be hearing our own dialect in which we were born?
9Parthians and Medes and Elamites; those dwelling in Mesopotamia, in Judea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia,
10in Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and the parts of Libya adjoining Cyrene; and visitors from Rome—both Jews and proselytes—
11Cretans and Arabians; we hear them declaring the great works of God in our own languages.”
12Yes they were all amazed and perplexed, saying one to another, “Whatever is going on?”
13But different ones were jeering, saying, “They are full of sweet wine!”
14So Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and proclaimed to them: “Men—Jews and all who are dwelling in Jerusalem—let this be known to you; indeed, listen to my speech!
15Because these are not drunk, as you suppose (since it is only the third hour of the day),
16but this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel:
17‘It will be in the last days, says God: I will pour out from my Spirit upon all flesh; your sons and your daughters will prophesy; your young men will see visions; your old men will dream a dream.
18In those days I will indeed pour out from my Spirit upon my male slaves and upon my female slaves, and they will prophesy.

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