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Acts 2 tongues were real human foreign languages — each person heard in their own native language, not a single universal language

20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 18) 00:19:25 – 00:22:29

Question from Joel Holberg about whether the apostles in Acts 2 spoke a language everyone understood or each spoke a different foreign language.

Mike reads Acts 2:1-7 directly. The Greek word for tongues (glōssais) means languages. The text says "each one was hearing them speak in his own language" — plural languages, not one. The crowd was from every nation under heaven: Parthians, Medes, Elamites, Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, Libya, Rome, Crete, Arabia. The Galilean speakers were unlikely to know all these languages.
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20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 18) @ 00:19:25

2021-01-15

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