Acts 2:1-11

1When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place,

2and suddenly a sound came from heaven like a rushing violent wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

3There appeared to them tongues resembling fire, which were being distributed [among them], and they rested on each one of them [as each person received the Holy Spirit].

4And they were all filled [that is, diffused throughout their being] with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues (different languages), as the Spirit was giving them the ability to speak out [clearly and appropriately].

5Now there were Jews living in Jerusalem, devout and God-fearing men from every nation under heaven.

6And when this sound was heard, a crowd gathered, and they were bewildered because each one was hearing those in the upper room speaking in his own language or dialect.

7They were completely astonished, saying, “Look! Are not all of these who are speaking Galileans?

8Then how is it that each of us hears in our own language or native dialect?

9[Among us there are] Parthians, Medes and Elamites, and people of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia [Minor],

10Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the districts of Libya around Cyrene, and the visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes (Gentile converts to Judaism),

11Cretans and Arabs—we all hear them speaking in our [native] tongues about the mighty works of God!”