1. Acts 2:3 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

Was it real fire that appeared and rested on the people who were gathered on the day of Pentecost?

Acts 2:3 (ESV)

3 And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them.

It is important to note that the believers did not see tongues of fire but what seemed to be tongues of fire;1 a light that flickers similar to the flames of a fire.2