It isn't a contradiction at all. When Peter stood up on the day of Pentecost and announced that "this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel" (Acts 2:17,18) he was quoting the prophecy of Joel 2:28,29. Peter and the 11 believed that Christ was about to return. The Holy Spirit had been poured out, all languages were being spoken (Acts 2:7,8) and Jerusalem was set to accept Christ as Messiah. OF course, they did not, as a whole, and the rest of Joel was left unfulfilled until a later time. But the point is, everything was in place that GOd said would be in place just before Christ's return to Jerusalem to establish His kingdom. We have to put ourselves in their place on that day. Jews are speaking in tongues to other Jews from other nations, miracles signs and wonders were present and the only thing left was for Christ to return, once Israel believed.Thank God they rejected Him at that time. Because the times of the Gentiles had yet to be fulfilled. But for them, everything that had been prophesied was coming to pass. Why do you think they sold everything and had all things in common? They were convinced His return was eminent and were awaiting going into the Kingdom to become a kingdom of priests and a blessing to all nations.
We just need to put ourselves in that place at that time to understand what was going on.
Ok...understood....I just had not considered they were ‘all’ Jews who heard them speaking in their languages......I still need to look closer at that though..but I did understand the Jews were looking to set up the Kingdom then. Just never saw they were Jews only that heard, as I always seemed to focus on the fact the people heard them speaking in their own languages....which for me was significant as many Charismatics were using these scriptures and simply ignored the fact it was heard in the peoples own language...not some strange otherwise language.