Tree Of Life Version

Acts 2:3-12 Tree Of Life Version (TLV)

3. And tongues like fire spreading out appeared to them and settled on each one of them.

4. They were all filled with the Ruach ha-Kodesh and began to speak in other tongues as the Ruach enabled them to speak out.

5. Now Jewish people were staying in Jerusalem, devout men from every nation under heaven.

6. And when this sound came, the crowd gathered. They were bewildered, because each was hearing them speaking in his own language.

7. And they were amazed and astonished, saying, “All these who are speaking—aren’t they Galileans?

8. How is it that we each hear our own birth language?

9. Parthians and Medes and Elamites and those living in Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

10. Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and parts of Libya toward Cyrene, and visitors from Rome

11. (both Jewish people and proselytes), Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring in our own tongues the mighty deeds of God!”

12. And they were all amazed and perplexed, saying to each other, “What does this mean?”