The Tower of Babel and the Connection to Pentecost: A Reversal. The Tower of Babel is one of the Bible’s most famous stories, often used to explain the origin of different languages and the scattering of nations. But its significance runs deeper than a tale of human pride. When set alongside the New Testament account of Pentecost in Acts 2, Babel and Pentecost form a powerful contrast — one showing the division caused by sin, the other revealing the unity created by the Spiri