“And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.”
All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them — the filling (pleroo) is complete saturation with the Spirit's presence and power. Speaking in other tongues (heteros glossai, foreign/different languages) is the immediate evidence and expression of Spirit-filling; glossolalia functions here as intelligible speech, reverting the Babel-confusion (Gen. 11). The Spirit enables (didomi, give/grant) both the capacity and the utterance.
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