₃I want you to know that no one who is led by God's Spirit can say “A curse on Jesus!” and no one can confess “Jesus is Lord”, without being guided by the Holy Spirit.

₄There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit gives them. ₅There are different ways of serving, but the same Lord is served. ₆There are different abilities to perform service, but the same God gives ability to all for their particular service. ₇The Spirit's presence is shown in some way in each person for the good of all. ₈The Spirit gives one person a message full of wisdom, while to another person the same Spirit gives a message full of knowledge. ₉One and the same Spirit gives faith to one person, while to another person he gives the power to heal. ₁₀The Spirit gives one person the power to work miracles; to another, the gift of speaking God's message; and to yet another, the ability to tell the difference between gifts that come from the Spirit and those that do not. To one person he gives the ability to speak in strange tongues, and to another he gives the ability to explain what is said. ₁₁But it is one and the same Spirit who does all this; as he wishes, he gives a different gift to each person.

₁₂Christ is like a single body, which has many parts; it is still one body, even though it is made up of different parts. ₁₃In the same way, all of us, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether slaves or free, have been baptized into the one body by the same Spirit, and we have all been given the one Spirit to drink.

₁When the day of Pentecost came, all the believers were gathered together in one place. ₂Suddenly there was a noise from the sky which sounded like a strong wind blowing, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. ₃Then they saw what looked like tongues of fire which spread out and touched each person there. ₄They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to talk in other languages, as the Spirit enabled them to speak.

₅There were Jews living in Jerusalem, religious people who had come from every country in the world. ₆When they heard this noise, a large crowd gathered. They were all excited, because each one of them heard the believers speaking in his or her own language. ₇In amazement and wonder they exclaimed, “These people who are talking like this are Galileans! ₈How is it, then, that all of us hear them speaking in our own native languages? ₉We are from Parthia, Media, and Elam; from Mesopotamia, Judea, and Cappadocia; from Pontus and Asia, ₁₀from Phrygia and Pamphylia, from Egypt and the regions of Libya near Cyrene. Some of us are from Rome, ₁₁both Jews and Gentiles converted to Judaism, and some of us are from Crete and Arabia — yet all of us hear them speaking in our own languages about the great things that God has done!” ₁₂Amazed and confused, they kept asking each other, “What does this mean?”

₁₃But others made fun of the believers, saying, “These people are drunk!”

₁₄Then Peter stood up with the other eleven apostles and in a loud voice began to speak to the crowd: “Fellow-Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, listen to me and let me tell you what this means. ₁₅These people are not drunk, as you suppose; it is only nine o'clock in the morning. ₁₆Instead, this is what the prophet Joel spoke about: