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In Acts Chapter 5 we see that God has led the apostles and other committed believers to Solomon’s Porch in the Temple. There they are manifesting the Holy Spirit in a big way and many people are becoming believers. They are simply being obedient to God. “Then the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with indignation, and laid their hands on the apostles and put them in the common prison.” (Acts 5:17-18

The timing of what we read in Acts chapter 2 is that only weeks have passed since Jesus was arrested for no valid reason, tortured and murdered. The scene is that Peter and the others are standing outside the house where the Holy Spirit fell upon them in the upper room. Some people there were mocking them for speaking in the languages known to others present but that were unknown to the speakers. “So they were all amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, ‘Whatever could t