Acts 2:1-11
New American Standard Bible 1995
The Day of Pentecost
2 When (A)the day of Pentecost [a]had come, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind, and it filled (B)the whole house where they were sitting. 3 And there appeared to them tongues as of fire [b]distributing themselves, and [c]they [d]rested on each one of them. 4 And they were all (C)filled with the Holy Spirit and began to (D)speak with other [e]tongues, as the Spirit was giving them [f]utterance.
5 Now there were Jews living in Jerusalem, (E)devout men from every nation under heaven. 6 And when (F)this sound occurred, the crowd came together, and were bewildered because each one of them was hearing them speak in his own [g]language. 7 (G)They were amazed and astonished, saying, “[h]Why, are not all these who are speaking (H)Galileans? 8 And how is it that we each hear them in our own [i]language [j]to which we were born? 9 Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and (I)Cappadocia, (J)Pontus and [k](K)Asia, 10 (L)Phrygia and (M)Pamphylia, Egypt and the districts of Libya around (N)Cyrene, and [l](O)visitors from Rome, both Jews and [m](P)proselytes, 11 Cretans and Arabs—we hear them in our own tongues speaking of the mighty deeds of God.”
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- Acts 2:1 Lit was being fulfilled
- Acts 2:3 Or being distributed
- Acts 2:3 Lit it
- Acts 2:3 Or sat
- Acts 2:4 Or languages
- Acts 2:4 Or ability to speak out
- Acts 2:6 Or dialect
- Acts 2:7 Lit Behold
- Acts 2:8 Or dialect
- Acts 2:8 Lit in
- Acts 2:9 I.e. west coast province of Asia Minor
- Acts 2:10 Lit the sojourning Romans
- Acts 2:10 I.e. Gentile converts to Judaism
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