2 ¹ WHILE THE DAY of Pentecost was running its course they were all together in one place, 2 ² when suddenly there came from the sky a noise like that of a strong driving wind, which filled the whole house where they were sitting. 2 ³ And there appeared to them tongues like flames of fire, dispersed among them and resting on each one. 2 ⁴ And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to talk in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them power of utterance.

2 ⁵ Now there were living in Jerusalem devout Jews Some witnesses read: devout men. drawn from every nation under heaven; 2 ⁶ and at this sound the crowd gathered, all bewildered because each one heard his own language spoken. 2 ⁷ They were amazed and in their astonishment exclaimed, 'Why, they are all Galileans, are they not, these men who are speaking? 2 ⁸ How is it then that we hear them, each of us in his own native language? 2 ⁹ Parthians, Medes, Elamites; inhabitants of Mesopotamia, of Judaea and Cappadocia, of Pontus and Asia, 2 ¹⁰ of Phrygia and Pamphylia, of Egypt and the districts of Libya around Cyrene; visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, 2 ¹¹ Cretans and Arabs, we hear them telling in our own tongues the great things God has done.' 2 ¹² And they were all amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, 'What can this mean?' 2 ¹³ Others said contemptuously, 'They have been drinking!'