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Acts 2:11 KJV
Acts · chapter 2 · verse 11
Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.Acts 2:11 · King James Version
Acts 2:11 in context
9Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
10Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,
11Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
12And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?
13Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- Arabiansarapsan ArabianG690 →
- tonguesglōssathe tongue, a member of the body, an organ of speech, a tongue, the language or dialect…G1100 →
- Creteskrēsa Cretan, an inhabitant of the island of CreteG2912 →
- speaklaleōto utter a voice or emit a sound, to speak, to use the tongue or the faculty of speech…G2980 →
- worksmegaleiosmagnificent, excellent, splendid, wonderfulG3167 →
- hearakouōto be endowed with the faculty of hearing, not deaf, to hear, to attend to, consider what…G191 →
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We have here an account of the public notice that was taken of this extraordinary gift with which the disciples were all on a sudden endued. Observe, I. The great concourse of people that there was now at Jerusalem, it should seem more than was usual at the feast of pentecost.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 5-13