The Swelling

Both pride and infection produce a similar swelling effect, one which acts on the tissue of the body, the other puffs up the head and heart, weakening and marring the spirit. 

Then These Men Opened Their Mouth

Acts 2:2-4

2 And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3 And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. 

There  are so many people in the street it is hard not to bump into someone. The noise and clammer of the crowd is loud, yet there rises above the usual coming and going a different sound. 

I turn toward the commotion in time to see the most astounding thing. Out of nowhere, fire appears out of the sky. It reaches down to find a group of men and I wonder if they have met their end, so real in appearance are the flames. It happens so quickly and with such noise I am reminded of lightning striking the earth without warning, fierce and powerful. Then there is a sudden and profound silence. Everyone is still,  not knowing what would come next. 

Then these men opened their mouth. 

Deceit

Luke 23:1-5 KJV 

    1  And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pilate. 2  And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting[  * diastrephō * dee-as-tref'-o * From G1223 and G4762; to distort, that is, (figuratively) misinterpret, or (morally) corrupt: - perverse (-rt), turn away. [LEX] [TGD] [Find] ] the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King. 3  And Pilate asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And he answered him and said, Thou sayest it. 4  Then said Pilate to the chief priests and to the people, I find no fault in this man. 5  And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place. 

They accuse Jesus of the very thing they do, distort the truth. That is like saying the followers of Christ are intolerant and primitive when they live according to His word, He full of grace and mercy. 

There is an element of deceit running rampant in the world. At the root is the one who is the father of lies. He is so good at what he does that many don't believe he exists. 

What Further Testimony?

Luke 22:71 ESV

71 Then they said, “What further testimony do we need? We have heard it ourselves from his own lips.”

Spoken by the high priest as he heard something that he could use to kill Jesus. No further witness was needed. 

Redemption Of The Land

Leviticus 25:23-24 ESV

23 “The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me.

24 And in all the country you possess, you shall allow a redemption of the land.

Foreshadows Christ our redeemer. The book of Ruth portrays that truth in story form. 

The Loud Trumpet

Leviticus 25:9-10 ESV

9 Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land.

10 And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to his property and each of you shall return to his clan.

The trumpet, or shofar, will give voice, a shout, to the joy of celebration of the Lord's return. The jubilee at the atonement feast foreshadows that celebration. 

Not Prune

Leviticus 25:4 ESV

4 but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.

The Hebrew idea translated here as not prune is based on (nâzı̂yr nâzir * naw-zeer'), which has in it's meaning and conveys the idea of setting aside, consecrating. A person known as a Nazarite was one set aside to the Lord with a vow. Not cutting one's hair(no "pruning" or "dressing") is associated with such a vow. 

GWHS

"thou shalt not reap, neither gather [+] the grapes of thy vine undressed:[ nn,pnx [ Noun (61: see 1, 9), Pronominal Suffix (83: see 71) ] H5139 נזר נזיר * nâzı̂yr nâzir * naw-zeer', naw-zeer' * From H5144[H5144 נזר * nâzar * naw-zar' * A primitive root; to hold aloof, that is, (intransitively) abstain (from food and drink, from impurity, and even from divine worship (that is, apostatize)); specifically to set apart (to sacred purposes), that is, devote: - consecrate, separate (-ing, self). [LEX] [Find] ]; separate, that is, consecrated (as prince, a Nazirite); hence (figuratively from the latter) an unpruned vine (like an unshorn Nazirite). (The translation, , is by a false alliteration with Nazareth.): - Nazarite [by a false alliteration with Nazareth], separate (-d), vine undressed. [LEX] NaMzi2r;this masc. noun comes from naMzar (5144). It means a separate one, a dedicated one; a  a prince; the unpruned vine (like an unshorn Nazarite). Nazarites were Hebrew ascetics"