It is said, "It filled all the house where they were sitting." Now what filled it, the sound or the Spirit? The sound, of course. Are you sure of this? Read the verse, Acts 2:22And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. (Acts 2:2), and you will be assured of it too. No reader of the English New Testament need have a doubt about it. The Spirit was there.
Three things are named in this important passage:
1.A sound came suddenly from heaven. This addressed their ears, and was like the bell of a signal that tells of the coming in of a fresh train. The promised Spirit was now come.
2."Cloven tongues like as of fire" appeared unto them, and sat upon each of them. This addressed their eyes as the sound had addressed their ears. Besides, they were seen in their distribution; "it sat upon each of them."
3. "And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak," etc.
This was something internal and invisible. The Holy Ghost had been symbolized in the sound like "a rushing mighty wind," as a power that would carry everything before it, while it was shown to be intelligent power in the light of the fiery tongues; and that it sat on each of them was indicative that these humble disciples were now endowed as personal witnesses with the power of the Holy Ghost, and made His instruments in giving testimony to a rejected, crucified, but now risen and exalted, Lord and Christ.