Get your ears on...

How is it that we each hear them...??? Acts 2:8

Is the miracle of Pentecost the gift of speaking in tongues or is it also the gift of hearing?

So often when we read the Pentecost story all we see is the miracle of tongues, the opening of the disciples of Jesus to speak the Gospel in the many languages that make up human communication. A reversal of the problem that resulted from the Tower of Babel. But I think another miracle took place that day, that of hearing. The many people gathered in Jerusalem for this festival had their ears opened to hear this good news being preached by the followers of Christ. Such was the power of that news that at the end of the day over 3000 were baptized into Christ Jesus.

Jesus came and gave the dumb the ability to speak and the deaf the ability to hear. The Holy Spirit duplicated these miracles that first Pentecost.