Not long after Jesus ascended into heaven, his bewildered friends huddled in a room together and wondered what would come next. Then it happened: “[S]uddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them tongues of something like fire, branching out and landing upon each of them, and they were all filled with the holy spirit and began to speak in different tongues” (Acts 2:1-4). All at once, the disciples started preaching fluently in foreign languages that none of them had ever learned. Bystanders from all over the Mediterranean and the Near East heard these native Israelites telling the story of their savior in Latin, Greek, Egyptian, Phrygian. The Gospel was multilingual—miraculously so—from the very first time it was preached.
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