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They were all filled with the Ruach HaKodesh and began to talk in different languages, as the Spirit enabled them to speak.
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Now there were staying in Yerushalayim religious Jews from every nation under heaven.
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When they heard this sound, a crowd gathered; they were confused, because each one heard the believers speaking in his own language.
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Totally amazed, they asked, "How is this possible? Aren't all these people who are speaking from the Galil?
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How is it that we hear them speaking in our native languages?
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We are Parthians, Medes, Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Y'hudah, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia,
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Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome;
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Jews by birth and proselytes; Jews from Crete and from Arabia. . . ! How is it that we hear them speaking in our own languages about the great things God has done?"