Were those three groups the only ones who spoke in other languages in the Book of Acts?
Yes. Scripture indicates only three groups experienced this manifestation in Acts: the Jews at Pentecost in chapter 2, Gentiles in Cornelius’s house in chapter 10, and the transitional group in chapter 19—Jews saved under John’s baptism who had not known Paul’s Gospel. These were the only categories that spoke in languages other than their normal ones.
Les teaches that those three categories were the only ones who came under the manifestation of the Holy Spirit’s power to speak in languages other than the ones they normally practiced. He identifies them as Israel in Acts chapter 2, Gentiles in the house of Cornelius in chapter 10, and those in transition in chapter 19—Jews who had been saved under John’s baptism but knew nothing of Paul’s Gospel, the Body of Christ, and further revelations. He adds that whenever the Holy Spirit was manifested in Acts, it was for a divine purpose: to prove something, to show Israel that God was moving in the work of the Holy Spirit, to prove to Jews in the house of Gentiles that God was now saving Gentiles, and to show these twelve Jews that there was a change in the overall program.
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Which groups in Acts spoke in languages other than their own?
Those three categories are the only ones that came under the manifestation of the power of the Holy Spirit to speak in languages other than the ones in which they normally practiced.