Day of Pentecost

1Verse 1. When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. 2Verse 2. Suddenly a sound like a mighty rushing wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3Verse 3. They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. 4Verse 4. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. 5Verse 5. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. 6Verse 6. And when this sound rang out, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard them speaking his own language. 7Verse 7. Astounded and amazed, they asked, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? 8Verse 8. How is it then that each of us hears them in his own native language? 9Verse 9. Parthians, Medes, and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, 10Verse 10. Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome, 11Verse 11. both Jews and converts to Judaism; Cretans and Arabs— we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!” 12Verse 12. Astounded and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?” 13Verse 13. But others mocked them and said, “They are drunk on new wine!” 14Verse 14. Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, lifted up his voice, and addressed the crowd: “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen carefully to my words. 15Verse 15. These men are not drunk, as you suppose. It is only the third hour of the day! 16Verse 16. No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: 17Verse 17. ‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. 18Verse 18. Even on My menservants and maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. 19Verse 19. I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke. 20Verse 20. The sun will be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and glorious Day of the Lord. 21Verse 21. And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’

1Verse 1. Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech. 2Verse 2. And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. 3Verse 3. And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar. 4Verse 4. “Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.” 5Verse 5. Then the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men were building. 6Verse 6. And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them. 7Verse 7. Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.” 8Verse 8. So the LORD scattered them from there over the face of all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9Verse 9. That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.

14Verse 14. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 15Verse 15. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption to sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” 16Verse 16. The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. 17Verse 17. And if we are children, then we are heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ — if indeed we suffer with Him, so that we may also be glorified with Him.

1Verse 1. When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. 2Verse 2. Suddenly a sound like a mighty rushing wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3Verse 3. They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. 4Verse 4. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. 5Verse 5. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. 6Verse 6. And when this sound rang out, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard them speaking his own language. 7Verse 7. Astounded and amazed, they asked, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? 8Verse 8. How is it then that each of us hears them in his own native language? 9Verse 9. Parthians, Medes, and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, 10Verse 10. Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome, 11Verse 11. both Jews and converts to Judaism; Cretans and Arabs— we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!” 12Verse 12. Astounded and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?” 13Verse 13. But others mocked them and said, “They are drunk on new wine!” 14Verse 14. Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, lifted up his voice, and addressed the crowd: “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen carefully to my words. 15Verse 15. These men are not drunk, as you suppose. It is only the third hour of the day! 16Verse 16. No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: 17Verse 17. ‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out My Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. 18Verse 18. Even on My menservants and maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. 19Verse 19. I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke. 20Verse 20. The sun will be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the coming of the great and glorious Day of the Lord. 21Verse 21. And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’

8Verse 8. Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.” 9Verse 9. Jesus replied, “Philip, I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10Verse 10. Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you, I do not speak on My own. Instead, it is the Father dwelling in Me, performing His works. 11Verse 11. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me — or at least believe on account of the works themselves. 12Verse 12. Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever believes in Me will also do the works that I am doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13Verse 13. And I will do whatever you ask in My name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14Verse 14. If you ask Me for anything in My name, I will do it. 15Verse 15. If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. 16Verse 16. And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever — 17Verse 17. the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.