- Insight #1 – Being a witness for Jesus starts in your own backyard (v. 5).
- “dwelling in Jerusalem”
- “God-fearing” – a word that means cautious
- “every nation under heaven”
- Insight #2 – God will bring people to you if you want to be His witness (v. 6).
- “when they heard this sound” – referring to a singular sound
- “a crowd came together”
- Insight #3 – God loves to use what man sees as unusable (vv. 6-7).
- “bewilderment” – mixed up, confused
- “utterly amazed”
- “are not all these men who are speaking Galileans?”
- Insight #4 – God can remove any barrier for you to witness for Him (v. 8).
- “how is it that each of us hears them in his own native language?”
- Glossa – used here to mean a spoken language – speech (vv. 4, 11)
- Dialekto – means dialect, part of a family of languages with a common ancestry (vv. 6, 8)
- Insight #5 - Miracles from God point people toward worship of God (v. 11). Exodus 15:11; Psalm 40:5; Psalm 77:11-12; Psalm 78:4; Isaiah 25:1
- “we hear them declaring the wonders of God”
- Insight #6 – Some People will reject Jesus and you as His witness (v. 13).
- “some, however, made fun of them’
- Insight #7 - Miracles from God are to help you witness to the Lordship of Jesus (v. 16).
- “this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel”
- The main point: v. 36
- Insight #8 - The verbal declaration and explanation of Jesus and His Good News is a necessary part of being a witness for Him.
The other Scriptures where the Pentecost experience occurred: Acts 8:14-17; Acts 10:44-46; Acts 11:15-18; Acts 15:6-11; Acts 19:1-7
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