Acts 2:3

2:3 And tongues spreading out like a fire ¹  appeared to them and came to rest on each one of them.

Acts 2:41

2:41 So those who accepted ²  his message ³  were baptized, and that day about three thousand people ⁴  were added. ⁵ 

[2:3]  ¹ tn Or “And divided tongues as of fire.” The precise meaning of διαμερίζομαι (diamerizomai) in Acts 2:3 is difficult to determine. The meaning could be “tongues as of fire dividing up one to each person,” but it is also possible that the individual tongues of fire were divided (“And divided tongues as of fire appeared”). The translation adopted in the text (“tongues spreading out like a fire”) attempts to be somewhat ambiguous.

[2:41]  ² tn Or “who acknowledged the truth of.”

[2:41]  ³ tn Grk “word.”

[2:41]  ⁴ tn Grk “souls” (here an idiom for the whole person).

[2:41]  ⁵ tn Or “were won over.”