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Acts 2:8 KJV
Acts · chapter 2 · verse 8
And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?Acts 2:8 · King James Version
Acts 2:8 in context
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?
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,
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- tonguedialektosconversation, speech, discourse, language, the tongue or language peculiar to any peopleG1258 →
- 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