Bible Verses About The Emblems of the Holy Spirit

And he said, `Thus is the reign of God: as if a man may cast the seed on the earth,

and may sleep, and may rise night and day, and the seed spring up and grow, he hath not known how;

for of itself doth the earth bear fruit, first a blade, afterwards an ear, afterwards full corn in the ear;

and the rumour of this having come, the multitude came together, and was confounded, because they were each one hearing them speaking in his proper dialect,

and they were all amazed, and did wonder, saying one unto another, `Lo, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

and how do we hear, each in our proper dialect, in which we were born?

Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and those dwelling in Mesopotamia, in Judea also, and Cappadocia, Pontus, and Asia,

Phrygia also, and Pamphylia, Egypt, and the parts of Libya, that are along Cyrene, and the strangers of Rome, both Jews and proselytes,

Cretes and Arabians, we did hear them speaking in our tongues the great things of God.'

Wherefore, (as the Holy Spirit saith, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear--

ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of the temptation in the wilderness,

in which tempt Me did your fathers, they did prove Me, and saw My works forty years;

wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, Always do they go astray in heart, and these have not known My ways;

so I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest--!')