The following is the results of your search for Tongues, Gift of.
Tongues, Gift of: Granted on the day of Pentecost
(Acts 2:4) in fulfilment of a
promise Christ had made to his disciples
(Mark 16:17) What this gift
actually was has been a subject of much discussion. Some have argued
that it was merely an outward sign of the presence of the Holy Spirit
among the disciples, typifying his manifold gifts, and showing that
salvation was to be extended to all nations. But the words of Luke
(Acts 2:9) clearly show that the various peoples in Jerusalem at the
time of Pentecost did really hear themselves addressed in their own
special language with which they were naturally acquainted (comp.)
(Joel 2:28,29) Among the gifts of the Spirit the apostle enumerates in
(1 Corinthians 12:10) through
(1 Corinthians 14:30) "divers kinds of tongues" and the
"interpretation of tongues." This "gift" was a different
manifestation of the Spirit from that on Pentecost, although it
resembled it in many particulars. Tongues were to be "a sign to them
that believe not."
