Acts 2:3

Geneva Bible (1560)

And there appeared vnto them clouen tongues, like fire, and it sate vpon eche of them.

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  • Matt 3:11 : 11 In deede I baptize you with water to amendement of life, but he that commeth after me, is mightier then I, whose shoes I am not worthie to beare: hee will baptize you with the holy Ghost, and with fire.
  • John 1:32-33 : 32 So Iohn bare recorde, saying, I behelde that Spirit come downe from heauen, like a doue, and it abode vpon him, 33 And I knewe him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, he saide vnto me, Vpon whom thou shalt see that Spirit come downe, and tary still on him, that is he which baptizeth with the holy Ghost.
  • Acts 2:4 : 4 And they were all filled with the holy Ghost, and began to speake with other tongues, as the Spirit gaue them vtterance.
  • Acts 2:11 : 11 Creetes, and Arabians: wee hearde them speake in our owne tongues the wonderful works of God.
  • 1 Cor 12:10 : 10 And to another the operations of great workes: and to another, prophecie: and to another, the discerning of spirits: and to another, diuersities of tongues: and to another, the interpretation of tongues.
  • Jas 3:6 : 6 And the tongue is fire, yea, a worlde of wickednesse: so is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire of hell.
  • Rev 11:3 : 3 But I wil giue power vnto my two witnesses, and they shall prophecie a thousande two hundreth and threescore dayes, clothed in sackcloth.
  • Rev 14:6 : 6 Then I sawe another Angel flie in the mids of heauen, hauing an euerlasting Gospel, to preach vnto them that dwell on the earth, and to euery nation, and kinred, and tongue, and people,
  • Matt 3:15 : 15 Then Iesus answering, saide to him, Let be nowe: for thus it becommeth vs to fulfill all righteousnes. So he suffered him.
  • Luke 24:32 : 32 And they saide betweene themselues, Did not our heartes burne within vs, while he talked with vs by the way, and when he opened to vs the Scriptures?
  • Isa 11:2-3 : 2 And the Spirite of the Lord shall rest vpon him: the Spirite of wisedome and vnderstanding, the Spirite of counsell and strength, the Spirite of knowledge, and of the feare of the Lord, 3 And shall make him prudent in the feare of the Lord: for he shall not iudge after the sight of his eies, neither reproue by ye hearing of his eares.
  • Jer 23:29 : 29 Is not my word euen like a fire, sayeth the Lorde? and like an hammer, that breaketh the stone?
  • Mal 3:2-3 : 2 But who may abide the day of his coming? And who shall endure, when he appeareth? For he is like a purging fire, and like fullers sope. 3 And he shall sit downe to trye and fine the siluer: he shall euen fine the sonnes of Leui and purifie them as golde and siluer, that they may bring offerings vnto the Lord in righteousnesse.
  • Gen 11:6 : 6 And the Lord said, Beholde, the people is one, and they all haue one language, and this they begin to doe, neither can they now be stopped from whatsoeuer they haue imagined to do.
  • Ps 55:9 : 9 Destroy, O Lord, and deuide their tongues: for I haue seene crueltie and strife in the citie.
  • Isa 6:5 : 5 Then I sayd, Wo is me: for I am vndone, because I am a man of polluted lips, & I dwell in the middes of a people of polluted lips: for mine eyes haue seene the King and Lord of hostes.
  • Acts 1:15 : 15 And in those dayes Peter stoode vp in the middes of the disciples, and sayde (nowe the nomber of names that were in one place were about an hundreth and twentie.)

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  • Acts 2:4-8
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    4 And they were all filled with the holy Ghost, and began to speake with other tongues, as the Spirit gaue them vtterance.

    5 And there were dwelling at Hierusalem Iewes, men that feared God, of euery nation vnder heauen.

    6 Nowe when this was noised, the multitude came together and were astonied, because that euery man heard them speake his owne language.

    7 And they wondered al, and marueiled, saying among themselues, Beholde, are not all these which speake, of Galile?

    8 How then heare we euery man our owne language, wherein we were borne?

  • Acts 2:1-2
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    1 And when the day of Pentecost was come, they were al with one accord in one place.

    2 And suddenly there came a sounde from heauen, as of a russhing and mightie winde, and it filled all the house where they sate.

  • Acts 2:11-14
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    11 Creetes, and Arabians: wee hearde them speake in our owne tongues the wonderful works of God.

    12 They were all then amased, and douted, saying one to another, What may this be?

    13 And others mocked, and saide, They are full of newe wine.

    14 But Peter standing with ye Eleuen, lift vp his voice, & said vnto them, Ye men of Iudea, and ye all that inhabite Hierusalem, be this knowen vnto you, and hearken vnto my woordes.

  • Acts 10:44-47
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    44 While Peter yet spake these wordes, the holy Ghost fell on al them which heard the word.

    45 So they of the circumcision which beleeued, were astonied, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was powred out the gift of the holy Ghost.

    46 For they heard them speake with tongues, and magnifie God. Then answered Peter,

    47 Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which haue receiued the holy Ghost, as well as we?

  • Acts 11:15-16
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    15 And as I began to speake, the holy Ghost fell on them, euen as vpon vs at the beginning.

    16 Then I remembred the word of the Lord, howe he said, Iohn baptized with water, but ye shalbe baptized with the holy Ghost.

  • Acts 19:6
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    6 So Paul layde his handes vpon them, and the holy Ghost came on them, and they spake the tongues, and prophecied.

  • Acts 8:17
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    17 Then layd they their handes on them, and they receiued the holy Ghost.

  • Acts 2:16-17
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    16 But this is that, which was spoken by the Prophet Ioel,

    17 And it shalbe in the last daies, saith God, I wil powre out of my Spirite vpon al flesh, & your sonnes, and your daughters shall prophecie, and your yong men shal see visions, and your old men shall dreame dreames.

  • Matt 3:16
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    16 And Iesus when hee was baptized, came straight out of the water; lo, the heaues were opened vnto him, & Iohn saw the Spirit of God descending like a doue, and lighting vpon him.

  • Acts 4:31-32
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    31 And when as they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together, and they were all filled with the holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God boldely.

    32 And the multitude of them that beleeued, were of one heart, and of one soule: neither any of them said, that any thing of that which he possessed, was his owne, but they had all thinges common.

  • Acts 2:33
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    33 Since then that he by the right hande of God hath bene exalted, and hath receiued of his Father the promise of the holy Ghost, hee hath shed foorth this which yee nowe see and heare.

  • Acts 1:8-10
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    8 But yee shall receiue power of the holy Ghost, when he shall come on you: and ye shalbe witnesses vnto me both in Hierusalem and in all Iudea, and in Samaria, and vnto the vttermost part of the earth.

    9 And when he had spoken these things, while they behelde, he was taken vp: for a cloude tooke him vp out of their sight.

    10 And while they looked stedfastly towarde heauen, as hee went, beholde, two men stoode by them in white apparell,

  • John 1:32
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    32 So Iohn bare recorde, saying, I behelde that Spirit come downe from heauen, like a doue, and it abode vpon him,

  • Acts 1:4-5
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    4 And when he had gathered them together, he commaunded them, that they should not depart from Hierusalem, but to waite for the promise of the Father, which sayde hee, yee haue heard of me.

    5 For Iohn in deede baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the holy Ghost within these fewe daies.

  • Acts 8:15
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    15 Which whe they were come downe, prayed for them, that they might receiue the holy Ghost.

  • Luke 22:55
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    55 And when they had kindled a fire in the middes of the hall, and were set downe together, Peter also sate downe among them.

  • Acts 2:43
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    43 And feare came vpon euery soule: and many wonders & signes were done by ye Apostles.

  • Ezek 1:25
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    25 And there was a voyce fro the firmament, that was ouer their heads, when they stoode, and had let downe their wings.

  • Acts 2:38
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    38 Then Peter said vnto them, Amend your liues, and bee baptized euery one of you in the Name of Iesus Christ for the remission of sinnes: and ye shall receiue the gift of the holy Ghost.

  • Acts 13:52
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    52 And the disciples were filled with ioy, and with the holy Ghost.

  • Mark 1:10
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    10 And assoone as he was come out of the water, Iohn saw the heauens clouen in twaine, and the holy Ghost descending vpo him like a doue.

  • Ezek 1:13
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    13 The similitude also of the beasts, and their appearance was like burning coles of fire, & like the appearance of lampes: for the fire ran among the beastes, and the fire gaue a glister, and out of the fire there went lightning.

  • Acts 15:8
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    8 And God which knoweth the heartes, bare them witnesse, in giuing vnto them ye holy Ghost euen as he did vnto vs.

  • Matt 17:3
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    3 And beholde, there appeared vnto them Moses, and Elias, talking with him.

  • Acts 1:2
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    2 Vntill the day that hee was taken vp, after that hee through the holy Ghost, had giuen commaundements vnto the Apostles, whome hee had chosen:

  • Luke 9:34
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    34 Whiles he thus spake, there came a cloude and ouershadowed them, and they feared when they were entring into the cloude.

  • Acts 2:19
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    19 And I wil shew wonders in heauen aboue, and tokens in the earth beneath, blood, and fire, and the vapour of smoke.

  • John 20:22
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    22 And when he had saide that, he breathed on them, and saide vnto them, Receiue the holy Ghost.

  • Acts 19:2
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    2 And saide vnto them, Haue ye receiued the holy Ghost since ye beleeued? And they saide vnto him, Wee haue not so much as heard whether there be an holy Ghost.

  • 2 Kgs 2:11
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    11 And as they went walking and talking, beholde, there appeared a charet of fire, and horses of fire, and did separate them twaine. So Eliiah went vp by a whirle winde into heauen.

  • Mark 9:4
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    4 And there appeared vnto them Elias with Moses, and they were talking with Iesus.

  • Luke 3:22
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    22 And the holy Ghost came downe in a bodily shape like a doue, vpon him, and there was a voyce from heauen, saying, Thou art my beloued Sonne: in thee I am well pleased.

  • Acts 4:8
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    8 Then Peter ful of the holy Ghost, said vnto them, Ye rulers of the people, and Elders of Israel,