Acts 2
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Acts 2:3-10

3Then, what looked like flames or tongues of fire appeared and settled on each of them.

4And everyone present was filled with the Holy Spirit and began speaking in other languages, as the Holy Spirit gave them this ability.

5At that time there were devout Jews from every nation living in Jerusalem.

6When they heard the loud noise, everyone came running, and they were bewildered to hear their own languages being spoken by the believers.

7They were completely amazed. “How can this be?” they exclaimed. “These people are all from Galilee,

8and yet we hear them speaking in our own native languages!

9Here we are—Parthians, Medes, Elamites, people from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, the province of Asia,

10Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, and the areas of Libya around Cyrene, visitors from Rome

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