2 [ref]When the Day of Pentecost actually arrived, the believers met together in the same room. 2 Suddenly there was a noise in the sky that sounded like a strong wind, then it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3 They saw what looked like tongues of fire that kept dividing[fn] and then settling down on each one of them. 4 In this way they were all filled with the holy spirit and began speaking in other languages as the spirit enabled them.

5 At the time, there were godly Jews staying in Yerushalem that had come from other countries all around the world. 6 When they heard this noise, lots of people came to investigate but they were confused because they heard the believers talking in their own languages from around the world. 7 They were astounded and marvelled, asking, “Wow, aren’t these people talking all Galileans? 8 So how come we’re hearing them speak the languages of the countries where we were born? 9 There’s people here from Parthia, Media, Elam, Mesopotamia, Yudea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia Minor, 10 Frygia, Pamfylia, Egypt (Mitsrayim), Libya (near Cyrene), and visitors from Rome, 11 Crete, and Arabia. Some are Jews and some are non-Jews who’ve converted to Judaism. And we can hear them talking about God in our languages.” 12 Everyone was amazed and totally puzzled, asking each other, “What’s going on here?” 13 But others scoffed and said, “Ha, they’ve just had too much to drink.”