And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

1. The apostles were filled with the power of the Holy Spirit. They now had the power to speak in languages they had not learned or studied.

2. Tongues are languages. I speak (to the best of my ability) in the English tongue.

1. The miracle is the ability to speak a language the speaker has not learned.

2. Not just a word or two. English has words that originated in many other languages. This is not the abilityh to speak a word or two. But the ability to fluently speak Chinese, Russian, Portuguese would be a miracle, the gift of tongues.

3. This miracle is NOT jibberish, baby talk, heavenly language, or some supposed language of Adam.

4. Spirit gave them utterance - Peter spoke one language, Andrew another language, and so on.

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