In the third chapter of doctor Luke’s account of the Good News, Jesus’ cousin answers questions about himself by prophesying:

“I indeed baptize you with water; but One mightier than I is coming, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to loose.

He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire – His winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and gather the wheat into His barn; but the chaff He will burn with unquenchable fire.”

In the second chapter of his subsequent record of the Acts of the Apostles, Luke tells what happened during the Feast of Shavuot within days of Jesus’ Ascension into heaven

‘When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.

Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.’

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New King James Version quotation courtesy https://www.biblegateway.com

Photographer unknown at meeting of Iris Global ministries in Mozambique https://www.irisglobal.org/