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Acts 2:1‑21
for four readers
1 - When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together
in one place.
2 - And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of
a violent wind,
3 - and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.
4 - Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a
tongue rested on each of them.
1 - All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to
speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.
2 - Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven
living in Jerusalem.
3 - And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered,
because each one heard them speaking in the native language of
each.
4 - Amazed and astonished, they asked,
1 - “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans?
(gal‑ih‑LEE‑uhnz)
2 - And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native
language?
3 - Parthians,
(PAHR‑thee‑uhnz)
4 - Medes, (meeds)
1 - Elamites, (EE‑luh‑maits)
2 - and residents of Mesopotamia, (mehs‑o‑po‑TAY‑mih‑uh)
3 - Judea (dzhou‑DEE‑uh)
4 - and Cappadocia,
(kap‑ih‑DO‑shee‑uh)
1 - Pontus (PAHN‑tus)
2 - and Asia,
3 - Phrygia (FRIH‑dzhih‑uh)
4 - and Pamphylia,
(pam‑FIHL‑ih‑uh)
1 - Egypt
2 - and the parts of Libya
(LIH‑bih‑uh) belonging to Cyrene,
(sai‑REE‑neh)
3 - and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,
(pros×e×lytes)
4 - Cretans (KREE‑tihnz)
1 - and Arabs ‑ (EHR‑uhbs)
2 - in our own languages we hear them speaking about God's deeds
of power.”
3 - All were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another,
4 - “What does this mean?”
1 - But others sneered and said,
2 - “They are filled with new wine.”
3 - But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and
addressed them,
4 - “Men of Judea and all who live in Jerusalem
(dzheh‑ROU‑suh‑lehm),
let this be known to you, and listen to what I say
1 - Indeed, these are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only
nine o'clock in the morning.
2 - No, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel:
3 - ‘In the last days it will be, God declares, that I will pour
out my Spirit upon all flesh,
4 - and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
1 - and your young men shall see visions,
2 - and your old men shall dream dreams.
3 - Even upon my slaves, both men and women, in those days I
will pour out my Spirit; and they shall prophesy.
4 - And I will show portents in the heaven above and signs on
the earth below, blood, and fire, and smoky mist.
1 - The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood,
before the coming of the Lord's great and glorious day.
2 - Then everyone who calls on the name of
the Lord shall be saved.
3 - everyone who calls on the name of the Lord
shall be saved.
4 - everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be
saved.’”
from the New
Revised Standard Version,
copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States
of America.
Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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