"You must be brave to come down in a one hundredmile per hour gale like this in a parachute," the farmer said to the young soldier.

"I didn't come down like this in a chute," said the soldier.

"I went up in a tent."

A one hundred mile per hour gale hit the disciples of Jesus on that first Pentecost. They didn't come down in a parachute. They went up in a tent.

The events of that day were dramatic. The disciples were together to celebrate the Jewish Harvest Festival known as Pentecost. Suddenly, there was a sound like a violent blast of wind. Then, over the head of each of them there appeared what looked like tongues of fire. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in different languages.

There were in Jerusalem at that time devout men from many distant lands. …