Let's look a little further in verse 30: ". . . do all speak with tongues? . . ." The obvious answer
is no. Paul was talking here about fivefold ministry gifts, just as he was talking about fivefold
ministry gifts when he asked, "Are all apostles? . . ." (v. 29), and so forth.
Paul was again talking about the public ministry of tongues in First Corinthians 14:27 and 28:
"If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by
course; and let one interpret. But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church;
and let him speak to himself, and to God."
In the Greek, the words "two" and "three" are personal pronouns and refer to people. Paul was
simply saying that not more than two or three people should speak in a service.
In the next fW'6R