1. When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.
2. Suddenly a sound like a mighty rushing wind came from heaven, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.
3. There appeared to them tongues as of fire, being distributed and resting on each of them,
4. and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to speak.
5. Now dwelling in Jerusalem were Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven.
6. When this sound occurred, the crowd came together and were confounded, because each man heard them speaking in his own language.
7. They were all amazed and marveled, saying to each other, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans?
8. How is it that we hear, each in our own native language?
9. Parthians, Medes and Elamites, residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,
10. Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the regions of Libya near Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,
11. Cretans and Arabs—we hear them speaking in our own languages the mighty works of God.”
12. They were all amazed and perplexed, saying to each other, “What does this mean?”
13. Others mocking said, “These men are full of new wine.”
14. But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and said to them, “Men of Judea and all you who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen to my words.
15. For these are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is the third hour of the day.
16. But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
17. ‘In the last days it shall be,’ says God,‘that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,your young men shall see visions,and your old men shall dream dreams.