Acts 2:4 (WEB)
They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them the ability to speak.
Catechism · 2
The Sacrament of Confirmation
“On several occasions Christ promised this outpouring of the Spirit, a promise which he fulfilled first on Easter Sunday and then more strikingly at Pentecost.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 20:22; Acts 2:1-14.
"I Believe in the Holy Spirit"
“In the form of tongues "as of fire," the Holy Spirit rests on the disciples on the morning of Pentecost and fills them with himself” — Catechism footnote: Acts 2:3-4.
Fathers and councils · 34
Augustine of Hippo
“For the same reason also, that confidence in preaching the truth, with which the apostles were filled at His advent, is rightly ascribed to love; because diffidence also is assigned to fear, which the perfecting of love excludes.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 4
Read the whole comment“And He had already sent Him, but I knew it not; He had sent Him, because He was now magnified, rising again from the dead, and ascending into heaven.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 1–4.
Read the whole comment“For when the Holy Spirit came upon the disciples, with the tongues of all men they spake, by all men they were understood: tongues dispersed, into one were united.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 4.
Read the whole comment“Because therefore the doing was made void, but the sin remained upon the doers; they were taken in their pride, they saw themselves under their iniquity.” — editor's note: Acts i. 9, ii. 4, 37.
Read the whole comment“For from thence began the Church: there came there the Holy Spirit, and filled full the holy men gathered together in one place; miracles were done, with the tongues of all men they spake.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 1, 4.
Read the whole comment“He arose from the dead: and from the day of our Lord’s Passover, as from that of the slaying of the Paschal lamb, fifty days are counted; and the Holy Ghost descended, now in the fulness of love, not in the punishment of fear.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 1–4.
Read the whole comment“Whence were so many thousands at the words of Peter (when the Apostles, filled with the Holy Spirit, spoke with the tongues of all nations) converted with such zeal for the honour of God and their own accusation, that they who first shed the Lord’s blood in their rage, learnt how to drink it now that they believed?” — editor's note: Acts ii. 4.
Read the whole comment“Whence those hundred and twenty, who were together in one place after the resurrection of the Lord, and His ascension into heaven, on whom when gathered into one place the Holy Spirit descended on the day of Pentecost, sent down from heaven, sent, even as He was promised?” — editor's note: Acts ii. 1–4.
Read the whole comment““Sit ye still in the city, because I send my promise upon you.”” — editor's note: Acts i. 15; ii. 1–12.
Read the whole comment“In the earliest times, “the Holy Ghost fell upon them that believed: and they spake with tongues,” which they had not learned, “as the Spirit gave them utterance.”” — editor's note: Acts ii. 4.
Read the whole comment“…follow me;” and dare not unite themselves to those dwelling together, among whom no one saith that any thing is his own, but all things are unto them common; do we think that there is no addition of fruitfulness unto the virgins of God, when they do this? or that the virgins of God are without any fruit, although…” — editor's note: Acts ii. 44, 4, 32
Read the whole comment“…when He was baptized; nor that, on the day of Pentecost, after the ascension of the Lord, when “there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind,” the same Trinity “sat upon each of them with cloven tongues like as of fire,” but only the Holy Spirit.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 2, 4
Read the whole comment“…Pentecost a sound came suddenly from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and cloven tongues like as of fire were seen upon them, and it sat upon each of them.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 2–4
Read the whole comment“…them,” he says, “cloven tongues, like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them; and they began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance; in order to show that the Spirit was manifested by that fire, as by the dove; yet we cannot call the Holy Spirit both God and a dove, or both God and fire, in…” — editor's note: Acts ii. 3, 4
Read the whole comment“And in that very coming of His, which we read of in the Acts of the Apostles, there appeared cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them: which agrees with Exodus, where it is written, “And Mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire;” and a little after,…” — editor's note: Acts. ii. 1–4
Read the whole comment“…form like a dove, and in the tongues like as of fire, which appeared with a sound from heaven on the day of Pentecost, after the ascension of the Lord, it was not the Word of God Himself by His own substance, in which He is equal and eternal with the Father, nor the Spirit of the Father and of the Son by His…” — editor's note: Acts ii. 1–4
Read the whole comment“For the veriest of madmen would not say, that it was one Spirit which He gave when He breathed on them, and another which He sent after His ascension.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 1–4
Read the whole comment“But the reason why, after His resurrection, He both gave the Holy Spirit, first on earth, and afterwards sent Him from heaven, is in my judgment this: that “love is shed abroad in our hearts,” by that Gift itself, whereby we love God and our neighbors, according to those two…” — editor's note: Acts. ii. 4
Read the whole comment“Therefore, were they to receive those Acts of the Apostles, in which the coming of the Holy Spirit is plainly set forth, they could not find how to say that it was interpolated.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 2, 3, 4
Read the whole comment“…neighbour as oneself, and when the Holy Spirit had been poured out, whom, at the end of ten days after His ascension, He sent from above, as He had promised, there were not wanting such acts of vengeance, although much more rarely than in the Old Testament.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 1–4.
Read the whole comment“They “were filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with the tongues of all nations;” now was the calling manifest, now He went out to hire.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 4.
Read the whole comment“Of this number were those four thousand Jews who believed, after that the disciples and those who were with them, filled with the Holy Ghost, spake with the tongues of all nations, and in that diversity of tongues announced in a way beforehand, that the Church should be throughout all nations.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 4.
Read the whole comment“…unto them,” it says, “cloven tongues as of fire, and it sat upon each of them; and they began to speak with tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.”” — editor's note: Acts ii. 1, 4.
Read the whole comment“But “the Spirit was not yet given;” that is, with that abundance of spiritual grace which enabled those assembled together to speak in every language, and thus announce beforehand in the language of every nation the Church of the future: and so by this spiritual grace it was that nations were gathered into…” — editor's note: Acts ii. 4–6.
Read the whole comment“Or was it not the very same Spirit who was both then breathed upon them by Himself, and afterwards sent by Him from heaven?” — editor's note: Acts ii. 4.
Read the whole comment“Whence that hundred and nine who, with the eleven, were a hundred and twenty, when, being assembled together after His ascension, they waited and received the promise of the Holy Spirit?” — editor's note: Acts i. 15, and ii. 4.
Read the whole comment“And the 1 is added to show that there is one who is expressed by seven on account of His sevenfold operation; and we know that it was on the fiftieth day after our Lord’s ascension that the Holy Spirit was sent, for whom the disciples were commanded to wait according to the promise.” — editor's note: Acts i. 4; ii. 2–4.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“And they began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.” — editor's note: Ib. v. 4.
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Tertullian
“…hour is demonstrated as an hour of prayer, about which hour it was that they who had received the initiatory gift of the Holy Spirit were held for drunkards; and the sixth, at which Peter went up on the roof; and the ninth, at which they entered the temple: why should we not understand that, with absolutely perfect…” — editor's note: Acts ii. 1–4, 13, 15.
Read the whole comment“The first infusion of the Holy Spirit into the congregated disciples took place at “the third hour.”” — editor's note: Acts ii. 1–4, 14, 15.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“What great things are there in the idea of God which are not in His power?” — editor's note: Acts ii. 4.
Read the whole comment“…pursuit of the majority were ridiculous; or even be thought full of new wine as were in later days the disciples of Christ, because they spoke with tongues, since men knew not that it was the power of the Spirit, and not a distraction of mind.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 4.
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Leo the Great
“And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Holy Spirit gave them utterance.”” — editor's note: Acts ii. 1–4.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“And there appeared to them cloven tongues as if of fire, which also settled upon each of them; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.”” — editor's note: Acts ii. 2–4.
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Cross-references · 23
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 25.
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Cited together in Sermons Sermon 75.
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Cited together in Catechism §696.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 75.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.102.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.102.
Cited together in Catechism §696.
Cited together in Catechism §696.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 25.
Cited together in Catechism §696.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 25.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 46.
Cited together in Catechism §696.
Cited together in Catechism §696.
Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 46.
Cited together in Catechism §696.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 75.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 75.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 75.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 75.