Acts 2
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Acts 2:1-7

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?

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Notes

  1. 1. Acts 2:1 Lev 23:15f; Acts 20:16; 1 Cor 16:8 ↩
  2. 2. Acts 2:1 Lit was being fulfilled ↩
  3. 3. Acts 2:2 Acts 4:31 ↩
  4. 4. Acts 2:3 Or being distributed, and ↩
  5. 5. Acts 2:3 Or sat ↩
  6. 6. Acts 2:4 Matt 10:20; Acts 1:5, 8; 4:8, 31; 6:3, 5; 7:55; 8:17; 9:17; 11:15; 13:9, 52 ↩
  7. 7. Acts 2:4 Mark 16:17; 1 Cor 12:10f; 14:21 ↩
  8. 8. Acts 2:4 Or languages ↩
  9. 9. Acts 2:5 Luke 2:25; Acts 8:2 ↩
  10. 10. Acts 2:6 Acts 2:2 ↩
  11. 11. Acts 2:6 Or dialect ↩
  12. 12. Acts 2:7 Acts 2:12 ↩
  13. 13. Acts 2:7 Lit Behold ↩
  14. 14. Acts 2:7 Matt 26:73; Acts 1:11 ↩

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