Acts 2:1-12

New American Standard Bible 1995

The Day of Pentecost

2 When ^(A)the day of Pentecost ^[a]had come, they were all together in one place. ² And suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind, and it filled ^(B)the whole house where they were sitting. ³ And there appeared to them tongues as of fire ^[b]distributing themselves, and ^[c]they ^[d]rested on each one of them. ⁴ And they were all ^(C)filled with the Holy Spirit and began to ^(D)speak with other ^[e]tongues, as the Spirit was giving them ^[f]utterance.

⁵ Now there were Jews living in Jerusalem, ^(E)devout men from every nation under heaven. ⁶ And when ^(F)this sound occurred, the crowd came together, and were bewildered because each one of them was hearing them speak in his own ^[g]language. ^7 (G)They were amazed and astonished, saying, “^[h]Why, are not all these who are speaking ^(H)Galileans? ⁸ And how is it that we each hear them in our own ^[i]language ^[j]to which we were born? ⁹ Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and ^(I)Cappadocia, ^(J)Pontus and ^[k](K)Asia, ^10 (L)Phrygia and ^(M)Pamphylia, Egypt and the districts of Libya around ^(N)Cyrene, and ^[l](O)visitors from Rome, both Jews and ^[m](P)proselytes, ¹¹ Cretans and Arabs—we hear them in our own tongues speaking of the mighty deeds of God.” ¹² And ^(Q)they all continued in amazement and great perplexity, saying to one another, “What does this mean?”