This morning the lesson from the Acts of the Apostles is an excerpt from the speech Peter gives, when on the day of Pentecost, devout people have rushed together to observe the phenomenon of the Holy Spirit falling on the apostles, including the new apostle, Matthias. The people are amazed because all of them hear the apostles speaking in tongues in their own languages—the apostles are speaking Aramaic, with a vocabulary and accent contemporaries would recognize as making them Galileans.[1]
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