23/05/2021
Happy Pentecost 😇👼💛🙏
Acts 2:1-16
[1]When the day of Pentecost came, all the believers were gathered together in one place.
[2]Suddenly there was a noise from the sky which sounded like a strong wind blowing, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.
[3]Then they saw what looked like tongues of fire which spread out and touched each person there.
[4]They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to talk in other languages, as the Spirit enabled them to speak.
[5]There were Jews living in Jerusalem, religious people who had come from every country in the world.
[6]When they heard this noise, a large crowd gathered. They were all excited, because each one of them heard the believers speaking in his or her own language.
[7]In amazement and wonder they exclaimed, “These people who are talking like this are Galileans!
[8]How is it, then, that all of us hear them speaking in our own native languages?
[9]We are from Parthia, Media, and Elam; from Mesopotamia, Judea, and Cappadocia; from Pontus and Asia,
[10]from Phrygia and Pamphylia, from Egypt and the regions of Libya near Cyrene. Some of us are from Rome,
[11]both Jews and Gentiles converted to Judaism, and some of us are from Crete and Arabia — yet all of us hear them speaking in our own languages about the great things that God has done!”
[12]Amazed and confused, they kept asking each other, “What does this mean?”
[13]But others made fun of the believers, saying, “These people are drunk!”
[14]Then Peter stood up with the other eleven apostles and in a loud voice began to speak to the crowd: “Fellow-Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, listen to me and let me tell you what this means.
[15]These people are not drunk, as you suppose; it is only nine o'clock in the morning.
[16]Instead, this is what the prophet Joel spoke about:
