Lesson 2712

(Lesson 2712)(05-27-19) Acts 2:4-11
    “And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.”

   Today’s quote relates that after the Holy Ghost had come upon Peter and the other apostles, as Jesus had promised: They began to preach about the amazing grace of God through faith in the life, death, burial and resurrection of Jesus.
As the apostles spoke, people from all over the known world heard their words in their on native language.
    Most people teach this lesson as if the apostles spoke with tongues that were known to all the different peoples, all at the same time. I find that reasoning to be beyond absurd. The only reasonable explanation of the miracle that took place that day, as is clearly explained in the quote itself, is that, Peter and the others spoke in their native Aramaic, and the miracle that occurred, was not in the tongues that were spoken by those apostles, but rather, the miracle was in the ears of the listeners. “Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man HEARD them speak in his own language."~