pentecost year b - acts

Acts 2:1-21
When the day of Pentecost had come, 
     the apostles were all together in one place.
     ²And suddenly from heaven there came a sound 
          like the rush of a violent wind, 
               and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.
     ³Divided tongues, 
          as of fire, 
               appeared among them, 
          and a tongue rested on each of them.
     ⁴All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit 
     and began to speak in other languages, 
          as the Spirit gave them ability.

⁵Now there were devout Jews 
     from every nation under heaven  
          living in Jerusalem.
     ⁶And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, 
          because each one heard them speaking 
               in the native language of each.
     ⁷Amazed and astonished, they asked, 
          “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans?
          ⁸And how is it that we hear, 
               each of us, 
                    in our own native language?
               ⁹Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, 
               Judea and Cappadocia, 
               Pontus and Asia,
               ¹⁰Phrygia and Pamphylia, 
               Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, 
               and visitors from Rome, 
                    both Jewish-born and proselytes,
               ¹¹Cretans and Arabs—
                    in our own languages we hear them speaking 
                         about God’s deeds of power.”  
¹²All were amazed and perplexed, 
     saying to one another, 
          “What does this mean?”  
¹³But others sneered and said, 
     “They are filled with new wine.”

¹⁴But Peter, standing with the eleven, 
     raised his voice and addressed them, 
          “People of Judea and all who live in Jerusalem, 
               let this be known to you, 
               and listen to what I say.
                    ¹⁵Indeed, these are not drunk, as you suppose, 
                         for it is only nine o’clock in the morning.
               ¹⁶No, this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel:
                    ¹⁷‘In the last days it will be, God declares, 
                         that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh, 
                         and your children shall prophesy, 
                         and your youth shall see visions, 
                         and your elders shall dream dreams.
                    ¹⁸Even upon my slaves, of all genders, 
                         in those days I will pour out my Spirit; 
                              and they shall prophesy.
                    ¹⁹And I will show portents in the heaven above 
                    and signs on the earth below, 
                         blood, and fire, and smoky mist.
                    ²⁰The sun shall be turned to darkness 
                    and the moon to blood, 
                         before the coming of the God’s great and glorious day.
                              ²¹Then everyone who calls on the divine name 
                                   shall be saved.’

Queeries for the text:
Was it just the sound or could you feel the violence of the wind?
Were the tongues of fire Hermione's blue flames?  Or did the apostles take Snape's potion?
Is God a pyro?
Is this where Martin Luther got his "Was ist das?" question from?
What other ways do we try to dismiss God's work in others when we don't understand it?
Is God in the dark and the tumult more than in the calm light?
What would happen if people from all those places gathered together today? 

What are your queeries?