COMMENTARY

Epistle: Acts 2:1-21
On Pentecost the Disciples receive the Holy Spirit and Peter explains the happening. Luke gives an account of the Spirit's coming upon the gathered Disciples in Jerusalem on Pentecost accompanied by a mighty wind and tongues of fire. Then the reaction of the crowd is given the Disciples are accused of being drunk. Peter responds by explaining the experience as fulfillment of Joel's prophecy that at the end of the era the Spirit would come to all. The overall purpose of the event is salvation for all who call upon God. The Spirit gave the Disciples power to speak in the languages of the peoples assembled in Jerusalem, that all people might hear the Gospel. This is not a case of glossolalia referred to elsewhere when the passage was unintelligible except poss…