Acts 2:4-19

4All the believers were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.

5Devout Jewish men from every nation were living in Jerusalem.

6They gathered when they heard the wind. Each person was startled to recognize his own dialect when the disciples spoke.

7Stunned and amazed, the people in the crowd said, “All of these men who are speaking are Galileans.

8Why do we hear them speaking in our native dialects?

9We’re Parthians, Medes, and Elamites. We’re people from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, the province of Asia,

10Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, and the country near Cyrene in Libya. We’re Jewish people, converts to Judaism, and visitors from Rome,

11Crete, and Arabia. We hear these men in our own languages as they tell about the miracles that God has done.”

12All of these devout men were stunned and puzzled. They asked each other, “What can this mean?”

13Others said jokingly, “They’re drunk on sweet wine.”

14Then Peter stood up with the eleven apostles. In a loud voice he said to them, “Men of Judea and everyone living in Jerusalem! You must understand this, so pay attention to what I say.

15These men are not drunk as you suppose. It’s only nine in the morning.

16Rather, this is what the prophet Joel spoke about:

17‘In the last days, God says, I will pour my Spirit on everyone. Your sons and daughters will speak what God has revealed. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams.

18In those days I will pour my Spirit on my servants, on both men and women. They will speak what God has revealed.

19I will work miracles in the sky and give signs on the earth: blood, fire, and clouds of smoke.