Cross references

Acts 2:3

They saw tongues like flames of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.

Acts 2:3 BSB

Acts 2:3 has 17 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 6 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Matthew 3:11 (19 votes) and John 1:32–33 (9 votes). 18 other verses point back to it. It links with 16 other books, from Genesis 11 to Revelation 14.

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Which verses does Acts 2:3 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Matthew 3:1119 votes

    I baptize you with water for repentance, but after me will come One more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

  2. Then John testified, “I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove and resting on Him. I myself did not know Him, but the One who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The man on whom you see the Spirit descend and rest is He who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’

  3. “Is not My word like fire,” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer that smashes a rock?”

  4. Acts 2:47 votes

    And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.

  5. The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him—the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and strength, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD. And He will delight in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by what His eyes see, and He will not decide by what His ears hear,

  6. Luke 24:324 votes

    They asked each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us as He spoke with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”

  7. And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.

  8. But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap. And He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will present offerings to the LORD in righteousness.

  9. Acts 2:112 votes

    both Jews and converts to Judaism; Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!”

  10. to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in various tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues.

  11. Psalm 55:9-1 votes
  12. Isaiah 6:5-1 votes
  13. James 3:6-1 votes
  14. Acts 1:15-2 votes

    In those days Peter stood up among the brothers (a gathering of about a hundred and twenty) and said,

Which verses point to Acts 2:3?

The 10 strongest of 18.