CHAPTER 182.
Events of the day of Pentecost. Endowment of the apostles. The Christine Church is established. Peter preaches the introductory sermon. The sermon. Three thousand people are baptized and become members of the church.
Now, when the day of Pentecost had come Jerusalem was filled with pious Jews and proselytes from many lands.
2 The Christines all were met and were in perfect harmony.
3 And as they sat in silent prayer they heard a sound a-like the distant murmur of a coming storm.
4 The sound grew loud, and louder still, until, like thunder peals, it filled the room where the apostles sat.
5 A brilliant light appeared, and many thought, The building is afire.
6 Twelve balls, that seemed like balls of fire, fell from heaven—a ball from every sign of all the circle of the heavens, and on the head of each apostle there appeared a flaming ball of fire.
7 And every ball sent seven tongues of fire toward heaven, and each apostle spoke in seven dialects of earth.
8 The ignorant rabble treated lightly what they heard and saw; they said, These men are drunk, and know not what they say.