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Acts 2:6 KJV
Acts · chapter 2 · verse 6
Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.Acts 2:6 · King James Version
Acts 2:6 in context
4And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
5And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.
6Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
7And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?
8And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- confoundedsygcheōto pour together, commingle, to disturb the mind of one, to stir up to tumult or…G4797 →
- multitudeplēthosa multitude, a great number, of men or things, the whole number, the whole multitude, the…G4128 →
- togethersynerchomaito come together, to assemble, of conjugal cohabitation, to go or come with one, to…G4905 →
- abroadphōnēa sound, a tone, of inanimate things, as musical instruments, a voice, of the sound of…G5456 →
- heardakouōto be endowed with the faculty of hearing, not deaf, to hear, to attend to, consider what…G191 →
- speaklaleōto utter a voice or emit a sound, to speak, to use the tongue or the faculty of speech…G2980 →
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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