3And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
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I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. …
Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)We have here an account of the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the disciples of Christ. Observe, I. When, and where, this was done, which are particularly noted, for the greater certainty of the thing. 1. It was when the day of pentecost was fully come , in which there seems to be a reference to the manner of the expression in the institution of this feast, where it is said (Lev. 23:15), You shall…
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