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Polyglot Cowlicks: Acts 2:1-21

  Pentecost When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.   3 Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them.   4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability. 5 Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven living in Jerusalem.   6 And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each.   7 Amazed and astonished, they asked, "Are not all these who are speaking Galileans?   8 And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language? 9 Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors