“both Jews and converts to Judaism; Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!””
Acts 2:11
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Connection with the table of nations
Genesis 10 lists the nations by their languages. God scattered those languages at Babel (Genesis 11:9) and handed them back at Pentecost, when people from every nation heard the disciples "declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues." John saw them gathered home: "a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue" (Revelation 7:9).
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Genesis 10 lists the nations by their languages, and at Babel God scattered the peoples. At Pentecost the Spirit fell and Galileans were heard "declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues" by people drawn from the very nations Genesis 10 named. What Babel broke, God began to heal at Pentecost.
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At Babel God broke the one language so pride could not finish its tower, and He scattered the people. That scattering ran all the way to a room in Jerusalem, where the Spirit fell and Galileans were suddenly heard in every language under heaven, "declaring the wonders of God."
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