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When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.
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And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.
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Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them.
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All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.
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Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven living in Jerusalem.
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And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each.
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Amazed and astonished, they asked, "Are not all these who are speaking Galileans?
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And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language?
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Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,