1 all the Lord's followers were together in one place.
2Suddenly there was a noise from heaven like the sound of a mighty wind! It filled the house where they were meeting.
3Then they saw what looked like fiery tongues moving in all directions, and a tongue came and settled on each person there.
4The Holy Spirit took control of everyone, and they began speaking whatever languages the Spirit let them speak.
5Many religious Jews from every country in the world were living in Jerusalem.
6And when they heard this noise, a crowd gathered. But they were surprised, because they were hearing everything in their own languages.
7They were excited and amazed, and said:
Don't all these who are speaking come from Galilee?
8Then why do we hear them speaking our very own languages?
9Some of us are from Parthia, Media, and Elam. Others are from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia,
10Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, parts of Libya near Cyrene, Rome,
11Crete, and Arabia. Some of us were born Jews, and others of us have chosen to be Jews. Yet we all hear them using our own languages to tell the wonderful things God has done.
12Everyone was excited and confused. Some of them even kept asking each other, “What does all this mean?”
13Others made fun of the Lord's followers and said, “They are drunk.”
Peter Speaks to the Crowd14Peter stood with the eleven apostles and spoke in a loud and clear voice to the crowd:
Friends and everyone else living in Jerusalem, listen carefully to what I have to say!
15You are wrong to think that these people are drunk. After all, it is only nine o'clock in the morning.
16But this is what God told the prophet Joel to say,
17 of God, and he was given the Holy Spirit, just as the Father had promised. Jesus is also the one who has given the Spirit to us, and this is what you are now seeing and hearing.
34 and prayed together.
Life among the Lord's Followers43Everyone was amazed by the many miracles and wonders that the apostles worked.
44 together in different homes and shared their food happily and freely,
47while praising God. Everyone liked them, and each day the Lord added to their group others who were being saved.
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