Acts 2:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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 what they begin to do: and now nothing will be withholden from them, which they purpose to do.

Psalm 55:9

Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongue: For I have seen violence and strife in the city.

Isaiah 6:5

Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.

Jeremiah 23:29

Is not my word like as fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?

Matthew 3:11

I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:

Matthew 3:15

But Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it now: for thus it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness. Then he suffereth him.

Luke 24:32

And they said one to another, Was not our heart burning within us, while he spake to us in the way, while he opened to us the scriptures?

Acts 1:15

And in these days Peter stood up in the midst of the brethren, and said (and there was a multitude of persons gathered together, about a hundred and twenty),

Acts 2:11

Cretans and Arabians, we do hear them speaking in our tongues the mighty works of God.

Acts 2:2

And suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of the rushing 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 with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

1 Corinthians 12:10

and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits: to another divers kinds of tongues; and to another the interpretation of tongues:

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.

Revelation 11:3

And I will give unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

Revelation 14:6

And I saw another angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal gospel to proclaim unto them that dwell on the earth, and unto every nation and tribe and tongue and people;