Acts 2:1-13

The Day of Pentecost

1 When ¹the day of Pentecost 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 ²the whole house where they were sitting.

3 And there appeared to them tongues as of fire distributing themselves, and they rested on each one of them.

4 And they were all ³filled with the Holy Spirit and began to ⁴speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance.

5 Now there were Jews living in Jerusalem, ⁵devout men from every nation under heaven.

6 And when ⁶this sound occurred, the crowd came together, and were bewildered because each one of them was hearing them speak in his own language.

7 ⁷They were amazed and astonished, saying, "Why, are not all these who are speaking ⁸Galileans?

8 "And how is it that we each hear them in our own language to which we were born?

9 "Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and ⁹Cappadocia, ¹⁰Pontus and ¹¹Asia,

10 ¹²Phrygia and ¹³Pamphylia, Egypt and the districts of Libya around ¹⁴Cyrene, and ¹⁵visitors from Rome, both Jews and ¹⁶proselytes,

11 Cretans and Arabs -we hear them in our own tongues speaking of the mighty deeds of God."

12 And ¹⁷they all continued in amazement and great perplexity, saying to one another, "What does this mean *?"

13 But others were mocking and saying, "¹⁸They are full of sweet wine."

Cross References

• 1. Leviticus 23:15; Acts 20:16; 1 Corinthians 16:8
• 2. Acts 4:31
• 3. Matthew 10:20; Acts 1:5, 8; Acts 4:8, 31; Acts 6:3, 5; Acts 7:55; Acts 8:17; Acts 9:17; Acts 11:15; Acts 13:9, 52
• 4. Mark 16:17; 1 Corinthians 12:10; 1 Corinthians 14:21
• 5. Luke 2:25; Acts 8:2
• 6. Acts 2:2
• 7. Acts 2:12
• 8. Matthew 26:73; Acts 1:11
• 9. 1 Peter 1:1
• 10. Acts 18:2; 1 Peter 1:1
• 11. Acts 6:9; Acts 16:6; Acts 19:10; Acts 20:4; Acts 21:27; Acts 24:18; Acts 27:2; Romans 16:5; 1 Corinthians 16:19; 2 Corinthians 1:8; 2 Timothy 1:15; Revelation 1:4
• 12. Acts 16:6; Acts 18:23
• 13. Acts 13:13; Acts 14:24; Acts 15:38; Acts 27:5
• 14. Matthew 27:32
• 15. Acts 17:21
• 16. Matthew 23:15
• 17. Acts 2:7
• 18. 1 Corinthians 14:23

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "was being fulfilled"
• [b]. Or "being distributed"
• [c]. Lit "it"
• [d]. Or "sat"
• [e]. Or "languages"
• [f]. Or "ability to speak out"
• [g]. Or "dialect"
• [h]. Lit "Behold"
• [i]. Or "dialect"
• [j]. Lit "in"
• [k]. I.e. west coast province of Asia Minor
• [l]. Lit "the sojourning Romans"
• [m]. I.e. Gentile converts to Judaism
• [n]. I.e. new wine