Acts 2:3 - Revised Standard Version CI

³ And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And there appeared to them tongues resembling fire, which were separated and distributed and which settled on each one of them.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And there appeared unto them tongues parting asunder, like as of fire; and it sat upon each one of them.

Common English Bible

³ They saw what seemed to be individual flames of fire alighting on each one of them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And there appeared to them separate tongues, as if of fire, which settled upon each one of them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And there appeared to them parted tongues as it were of fire, and it sat upon every one of them:

Acts 2:3 Cross References

Genesis 11:6

And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.

Psalm 55:9

Destroy their plans, O Lord, confuse their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city.

Isaiah 6:5

And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”

Jeremiah 23:29

Is not my word like fire, says the Lord, and like a hammer which breaks the rock in pieces?

Matthew 3:11

“I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry; he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

Matthew 3:15

But Jesus answered him, “Let it be so now; for thus it is fitting for us to fulfil all righteousness.” Then he consented.

Luke 24:32

They said to each other, “Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the scriptures?”

Acts 1:15

In those days Peter stood up among the brethren (the company of persons was in all about a hundred and twenty), and said,

Acts 2:11

Cretans and Arabians, we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.”

Acts 2:2

And suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

Acts 2:4

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

1 Corinthians 12:10

to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is an unrighteous world among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the cycle of nature, and set on fire by hell.

Revelation 11:3

And I will grant my two witnesses power to prophesy for one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”

Revelation 14:6

Then I saw another angel flying in midheaven, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and tongue and people;