Acts 2:1-18

1When 1the day of Pentecost 2had come, they were all together in one place. 2And suddenly a noise like a violent rushing wind came from heaven, and it filled 3the whole house where they were sitting. 3And tongues that looked like fire appeared to them, 4distributing themselves, and a tongue 5rested on each one of them. 4And they were all 6filled with the Holy Spirit and began to 7speak with different 8tongues, as the Spirit was giving them the ability to speak out.

5Now there were Jews residing in Jerusalem, 9devout men from every nation under heaven. 6And when 10this sound occurred, the crowd came together and they were bewildered, because each one of them was hearing them speak in his own 11language. 712They were amazed and astonished, saying, “13Why, are not all these who are speaking 14Galileans? 8And how is it that we each hear them in our own 15language 16to which we were born? 9Parthians, Medes, and Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea, and 17Cappadocia, 18Pontus and 1920Asia, 1021Phrygia and 22Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya around 23Cyrene, and 2425visitors from Rome, both Jews and 2627proselytes, 11Cretans and Arabs--we hear them speaking in our own 28tongues of the mighty deeds of God.” 12And 29they all continued in amazement and great perplexity, saying to one another, “What does this mean?” 13But others were jeering and saying, “30They are full of 31sweet wine!”

14But Peter, taking his stand with 32the other eleven, raised his voice and declared to them: “Men of Judea and all you who live in Jerusalem, 33know this, and pay attention to my words. 15For these people are not drunk, as you assume, 34since it is only the 35third hour of the day; 16but this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel:17‘36And it shall be in the last days,’ God says, ‘That I will pour out My Spirit on all 37mankind; And your sons and your daughters will prophesy, And your young men will see visions, And your old men will 38have dreams;18And even on My male and female 39servants I will pour out My Spirit in those days, And they will prophesy.