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Acts 2:5-12

1. Read 2:1–13. Discuss what it would have been like to experience this event. What would you have thought? What would you have done?
   
2. At the first Pentecost, in Exodus 19, God made himself known in wind and fire. This was regarded as the "birthday" of the nation of Israel (which is what they celebrated on Pentecost). What do you think the significance was of God's making himself known again through wind and fire in vv. 1–3? Is this some sort of new birthday?
   
3. Only Moses had spoken a message from God in Exodus 19–20. Read 2:3, 17–18. What is different?
   
4. Discuss the miracle of people's hearing about the wonders of God in their own language through Galileans. Was this a miracle of the tongue or of the ears—of speaking in other languages or of understanding other languages? What is the significance, on this day, of all of these people groups' hearing about God's wondrous acts in vv. 7–12?
   
5. The culmination of Peter's sermon that followed the miraculous event is in v. 21. Why do you think Peter made this point about "everyone" his main emphasis?
   
6. In what practical ways should we respond to the message of this passage?
   

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