Before He ascended up into heaven, Jesus commanded His disciples to wait for the promise of the Father, the baptism of the Holy Ghost. (Acts 1:4-5) The baptism of the Holy Ghost is being filled with the Spirit of Jesus. (John 14:16-18).
Jesus had told Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews, that except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. (John 3:5). Jesus compared being born of the Spirit to the wind.
Jesus said the wind blows wherever it wants. You cannot tell where it is coming from or where it is going but you can hear the sound of it. Jesus said it is the same as every one that is born of the Spirit. (Acts 10:45-46).
"The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit." - John 3:8 KJV
On the day of Pentecost, when the one hundred and twenty in the upper room were born of the Spirit, there was a sound AS of a rushing mighty wind.
"And when the day of Pentecost was 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 all the house where they were sitting. ... And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance." - Acts 2:1-2, 4 KJV
Just as Jesus said, when those in the upper room were born of the Spirit, there was a sound as of the wind. The Bible says the sound came from heaven. This sound from heaven was the sound of those in the upper room speaking in other tongues (other languages) as the Spirit gave them utterance. With an hundred and twenty disciples all being filled with the Holy Ghost at once, it was the sound of a rushing mighty wind!
No one could see where the Spirit of Jesus came from, and where it went after it filled each of the disciples, but they heard the sound!
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