The day of Pentecost
The same words occur in the second chapter. We read there: When the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place (Acts 2:1). That company was the apostles, with the women, and the mother of Jesus, and his brothers. Suddenly there came a sound from heaven, like a rushing mighty wind. There appeared to them cloven tongues, as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.
One immediate effect was this. They began to speak with other tongues. So both the Parthians, the Medes, the Elamites, and the other strangers, who came together when this was noised abroad, heard them speak, in their several tongues, the wonderful works of God.
1771 text
And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.
1. THE same expression occurs in the second chapter, where we read, When the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all (the apostles, with the women, and the mother of Jesus, and his brethren) with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues, like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost. One immediate effect whereof was, They began to speak with other tongues; insomuch that both the Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and the other strangers who came together, when this was noised abroad, heard them speak, in their several tongues, the wonderful works of God.
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Sermon 4 in the 1771 Works. Saint Mary's, Oxford, 24 August 1744. Acts 4:31.
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