Did women speak in tongues at Pentecost?

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Acts 2:17-18 has Peter explaining the speaking in tongues by citing Joel’s prophecy that “your sons and daughters shall prophesy” and “on my menservants and my maidservants in those days I will pour out my Spirit”.

Didn’t see anything from Haydock. And maybe I’m missing something, but I don’t see a discussion of Acts from the Aquinas Commentary.

The only women around from Acts 1:14 were Mary and “the women.”

However, when I read that the Holy Spirit came “on each one of them” (Acts 2:3), the “them” seems to reflect back to just the apostles (Acts 1:26), which of course is the way I understand it.

But my question is, what of Joel’s foretelling that women would also prophecy?
 
All Christians recieve the Holy Spirit in Baptism and the threefold ministry–priest, prophet, king. Prophecy doesn’t mean necessarily to tell the future, but simply to proclaim the word of God to others–all Christians, men and women, can and should do this everyday.
 
The scripture records that the disciples were gathered in the upper room. It is reasonable to conclude that when the word used is “disciples” rather than “apostles” it means that a more extended group of believers was present. Thus it is not not unreasonable to conclude that the women present would also have spoken in tongues (glosolalia).

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In Jewish culture of the day, crowds were counted by only giving the number of men present.

Acts 2:3-4 (New International Version)

3They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. 4All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.

Every person was filled with the Holy Spirit, and thus spoke in tongues.
 
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