the Week of Proper 22 / Ordinary 27
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Acts 2:4
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All of 'em were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages without any effort or knowledge from the cowboy talkin'.
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance.
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance.
And they were all full of the Holy Spirit, and were talking in different languages, as the Spirit gave them power.
And they were all filled with [the] Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave to them to speak forth.
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Then they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different languages, as the Spirit gave them ability for speech.
They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.
And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in foreign languages according as the Spirit gave them words to utter.
And they were all filled with the holy Ghost, and began to speake with other tongues, as the spirit gaue them vtterance.
And they were all filled of the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave ability to them to speak.
and they were all fylled with the holy goost. And they beganne to preach with other tunges, euen as the sprete gaue them vtteraunce.
and they were all filled with the holy ghost, and began to speak in different languages, as the spirit gave them utterance.
And they were all filled [that is, diffused throughout their being] with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues (different languages), as the Spirit was giving them the ability to speak out [clearly and appropriately].
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
and they were all filled with the holy goost and beganne to speake with other tonges even as the sprete gave them vtteraunce.
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, according as the Spirit was giving them to declare.
They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak different languages by the power the Holy Spirit was giving them.
All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak in other languages as the Spirit enabled them.
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
They were all filled with the Ruach HaKodesh and began to talk in different languages, as the Spirit enabled them to speak.
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
And they were all filled with the holy Ghost, and began to speake with other tongues, as the Spirit gaue them vtterance.
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak in various languages, according to whatever the Spirit gave them to speak.
They were all filled with the Ruach HaKodesh, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.
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And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak in several tongues as the Spirit gave them to speak.
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak in diverse languages, as the Spirit gave them to speak.
And everyone present was filled with the Holy Spirit and began speaking in other languages, as the Holy Spirit gave them this ability.
They were all filled with the Holy Spirit. Then they began to speak in other languages which the Holy Spirit made them able to speak.
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.
And they were all filled with Holy Spirit, and began to be speaking with other kinds of tongues just as the Spirit was giving unto them to be sounding forth.
And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost: and they began to speak with divers tongues, according as the Holy Ghost gave them to speak.
And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages as the Spirit gave them ability to speak out.
And they were all fylled with the holy ghost, and began to speake with other tongues, as the spirite gaue them vtteraunce.
They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak different languages. The Holy Spirit was giving them the power to do this.
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with different tongues, as the Spirit was giving them the ability to speak out.
They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to talk in other languages, as the Spirit enabled them to speak.
And alle weren fillid with the Hooli Goost, and thei bigunnen to speke diuerse langagis, as the Hooli Goost yaf to hem for to speke.
Contextual Overview
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filled: Acts 1:5, Acts 4:8, Acts 4:31, Acts 6:3, Acts 6:5, Acts 6:8, Acts 7:55, Acts 9:17, Acts 11:24, Acts 13:9, Acts 13:52, Luke 1:15, Luke 1:41, Luke 1:67, Luke 4:1, John 14:26, John 20:22, Romans 15:13, Ephesians 3:19, Ephesians 5:18
began: Acts 2:11, Acts 10:46, Acts 19:6, Isaiah 28:11, Mark 16:17, 1 Corinthians 12:10, 1 Corinthians 12:28-30, 1 Corinthians 13:1, 1 Corinthians 13:8, 1 Corinthians 14:5, 1 Corinthians 14:18, 1 Corinthians 14:21-23, 1 Corinthians 14:29
as: Exodus 4:11, Exodus 4:12, Numbers 11:25-29, 1 Samuel 10:10, 2 Samuel 23:2, Isaiah 59:21, Jeremiah 1:7-9, Jeremiah 6:11, Ezekiel 3:11, Micah 3:8, Matthew 10:19, Luke 12:12, Luke 21:15, 1 Corinthians 14:26-32, Ephesians 6:18, 1 Peter 1:12, 2 Peter 1:21
Reciprocal: Genesis 11:7 - confound Psalms 68:18 - received Isaiah 32:4 - the tongue Isaiah 45:19 - spoken Ezekiel 47:3 - waters were to the ankles Zephaniah 3:9 - that Matthew 10:20 - but Mark 1:8 - he shall Mark 13:11 - take Luke 3:16 - and with Luke 5:10 - from John 1:33 - the same John 7:4 - show John 7:39 - this spake John 14:12 - greater Acts 2:3 - cloven Acts 4:20 - we cannot Acts 5:32 - whom Acts 13:15 - if Acts 15:8 - giving 1 Corinthians 1:5 - in all 1 Corinthians 2:13 - but Ephesians 6:19 - utterance
Cross-References
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
God looked at the light and saw that it was good. He separated light from darkness
God gave them his blessing and said: Have a lot of children! Fill the earth with people and bring it under your control. Rule over the fish in the ocean, the birds in the sky, and every animal on the earth.
God looked at what he had done. All of it was very good! Evening came and then morning—that was the sixth day.
So the heavens and the earth and everything else were created.
God created men and women to be like himself. He gave them his blessing and called them human beings. This is a list of the descendants of Adam, the first man:
After the flood Shem, Ham, and Japheth had many descendants.
Two years after the flood, when Shem was one hundred, he had a son named Arpachshad. He had more children and died at the age of six hundred. This is a list of his descendants:
Ishmael was the son of Abraham and Hagar, the slave woman of Sarah.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost,.... With the gifts of the Holy Spirit; they had received the Spirit before, as a Spirit of grace, and were endowed with great gifts; but now they had great plenty of them, a large abundance; they were like vessels filled to the brim; they were as it were covered with them; there was an overflow of them upon them; and now it was, that they were baptized with him; :-. Not only the twelve apostles, but the seventy disciples; and it may be all the hundred and twenty, that were together, even women as well as men: Acts 2:17.
And began to speak with other tongues; besides, and different from that in which they were born and brought up, and usually spake; they spake divers languages, one spoke one language, and another, another; and the same person spoke with various tongues, sometimes one language, and sometimes another. These are the new tongues, Christ told them they should speak with, Mark 16:17 such as they had never heard, learned, nor known before:
as the Spirit gave them utterance; they did not utter anything of themselves, and what came into their minds, things of little or no importance; nor in a confused and disorderly manner; but they were wise and weighty sentences they delivered, as the word signifies; even the wonderful works of God, Acts 2:11 the great doctrines of the Gospel; and though in different languages, yet in a very orderly and distinct manner, so as to be heard and understood by the people. The Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions read, "as the Holy Spirit", &c.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Were all filled with the Holy Ghost - Were entirely under his sacred influence and power. See the notes on Luke 1:41, Luke 1:67. To be filled with anything is a phrase denoting that all the faculties are pervaded by it, engaged in it, or under its influence, Acts 3:10, “Were filled with wonder and amazement”; Acts 5:17, “Filled with indignation”; Acts 13:45, “Filled with envy”; Acts 2:4, “Filled with joy and the Holy Spirit.”
Began to speak with other tongues - In other languages than their native tongue. The languages which they spoke are specified in Acts 2:9-11.
As the Spirit gave them utterance - As the Holy Spirit gave them power to speak. This language implies plainly that they were now endued with a faculty of speaking languages which they had not before learned. Their native tongue was that of Galilee, a somewhat barbarous dialect of the common language used in Judea - the Syro-Chaldaic. It is possible that some of them might have been partially acquainted with the Greek and Latin, as each of those languages was spoken among the Jews to some extent; but there is not the slightest evidence that they were acquainted with the languages of the different nations afterward specified. Various attempts have been made to account for this remarkable phenomenon without supposing it to be a miracle. But the natural and obvious meaning of the passage is, that they were endowed by the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit with ability to speak foreign languages, and languages to them before unknown. It does not appear that each one had the power of speaking all the languages which are specified Acts 2:9-11, but that this ability was among them, and that together they could speak these languages, probably some one and some another. The following remarks may perhaps throw some light on this remarkable occurrence:
(1) It was predicted in the Old Testament that what is here stated would occur in the times of the Messiah. Thus, in Isaiah 28:11, “With ...another tongue will he speak unto this people.” Compare 1 Corinthians 14:21 where this passage is expressly applied to the power of speaking foreign languages under the gospel.
(2) It was promised by the Lord Jesus that they should have this power, Mark 16:17, “These signs shall follow them that believe ...they shall speak with new tongues.”
(3) The ability to do it existed extensively and long in the church, 1 Corinthians 12:10-11, “To another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: all these worketh that one and the self-same Spirit”; Acts 2:28, “God hath set in the church ...diversities of tongues.” Compare also Acts 2:30, and Acts 14:2, Acts 14:4-6, Acts 14:9,Acts 14:13-14; Acts 14:18-19, Acts 14:22-23, Acts 14:27, Act 14:39. From this it appears that the power was well known in the church, and was not confined to the apostles. This also may show that in the case in the Acts , the ability to do this was conferred on other members of the church as well as the apostles.
(4) It was very important that they should be endowed with this power in their great work. They were going forth to preach to all nation; and though the Greek and Roman tongues were extensively spoken, yet their use was not universal, nor is it known that the apostles were skilled in those languages. To preach to all nations, it was indispensable that they should be able to understand their language. And in order that the gospel might be rapidly propagated through the earth, it was necessary that they should be endowed with ability to do this without the slow process of being compelled to learn them. It will contribute to illustrate this to remark that one of the principal hindrances in the spread of the gospel now arises from the inability to speak the languages of the nations of the earth, and that among missionaries of modern times a long time is necessarily spent in acquiring the language of a people before they are prepared to preach to them.
(5) One design was to establish the gospel by means of miracles. Yet no miracle could be more impressive than the power of conveying their sentiments at once in all the languages of the earth. When it is remembered what a slow and toilsome process it is to learn a foreign tongue, this would I be regarded by the pagan as one of the most striking miracles which could be performed, 1 Corinthians 14:22, 1 Corinthians 14:24-25.
(6) The reality and certainty of this miracle is strongly attested by the early triumphs of the gospel. That the gospel was early spread over all the world, and that, too, by the apostles of Jesus Christ, is the clear testimony of all history. They preached it in Arabia, Greece, Syria, Asia, Persia, Africa, and Rome. Yet how could this have been effected without a miraculous power of speaking the languages used in all those places? Now, it requires the toil of many years to speak in foreign languages; and the recorded success of the gospel is one of the most striking attestations to the fact of the miracle that could be conceived.
(7) The corruption of language was one of the most decided effects of sin, and the source of endless embarrassments and difficulties, Genesis 11:0: It is not to be regarded as wonderful that one of the effects of the plan of recovering people should be to show the power of God over all evil, and thus to furnish striking evidence that the gospel could meet all the crimes and calamities of people. And we may add,
(8) That from this we see the necessity now of training people who are to be missionaries to other lands. The gift of miracles is withdrawn. The apostles, by that miracle, simply were empowered to speak other languages. That power must still be had if the gospel is to be preached. But it is now to be obtained, not by miracle, but by stow and careful study and toil. If possessed, people must be taught it. And as the church is bound Matthew 28:19 to send the gospel to all nations, so it is bound to provide that the teachers who shall be sent forth shall be qualified for their work. Hence, one of the reasons of the importance of training men for the holy ministry.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Acts 2:4. To speak with other tongues — At the building of Babel the language of the people was confounded; and, in consequence of this, they became scattered over the face of the earth: at this foundation of the Christian Church, the gift of various languages was given to the apostles, that the scattered nations might be gathered; and united under one shepherd and superintendent (επισκοπος) of all souls.
As the Spirit gave them utterance. — The word αποφθεγγεσθαι seems to imply such utterance as proceeded from immediate inspiration, and included oracular communications.
