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Acts 2:3-9 Good News Bible (GNB)

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,