To these He also presented Himself alive after His suffering, by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over a period of forty days and speaking of things regarding the kingdom of God.

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with different tongues, as the Spirit was giving them the ability to speak out.

And when this sound occurred, the crowd came together and they were bewildered, because each one of them was hearing them speak in his own language.

They were amazed and astonished, saying, “Why, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

Cretans and Arabs—we hear them speaking in our own tongues of the mighty deeds of God.”

but this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel:

he looked ahead and spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that He was neither abandoned to Hades, nor did His flesh suffer decay.

whom heaven must receive until the period of restoration of all things, about which God spoke by the mouths of His holy prophets from ancient times.

And likewise, all the prophets who have spoken from Samuel and his successors onward, have also announced these days.

Peter and John Arrested

As they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to them,

But so that it will not spread any further among the people, let’s warn them not to speak any longer to any person in this name.”

And when they had summoned them, they commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus.

for we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

And now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant it to Your bond-servants to speak Your word with all confidence,

And when they had prayed, the place where they had gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with boldness.

“Go, stand and speak to the people in the temple area the whole message of this Life.”

They followed his advice; and after calling the apostles in, they flogged them and ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and then released them.

But they were unable to cope with his wisdom and the Spirit by whom he was speaking.

Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.”

They put forward false witnesses who said, “This man does not stop speaking against this holy place and the Law;

But God spoke to this effect, that his descendants would be strangers in a land that was not theirs, and they would enslave and mistreat them for four hundred years.

Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was proficient in speaking and action.

This is the one who was in the assembly in the wilderness together with the angel who spoke to him at length on Mount Sinai, and who was with our fathers; and he received living words to pass on to you.

“Our fathers had the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as He who spoke to Moses directed him to make it according to the pattern which he had seen.

An Ethiopian Receives Christ

So, when they had solemnly testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they started back to Jerusalem, and were preaching the gospel to many villages of the Samaritans.