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: