Acts 2:8

8 And how do we hear each one speak in our own tongue, with which we were brought up?

Acts 2:8 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 2:8

And how hear we every man in our own tongue
Them speaking, as the Ethiopic version reads; that is, we everyone of us hear one or another, speak in the same language,

wherein we were born;
our native language; for though these men were Jews by descent, yet were born and brought up in other countries, which language they spake; and not the Hebrew, or Syriac, or Chaldee.

Acts 2:8 In-Context

6 Now at this sound, the multitude came together and were confounded because each one heard them speak in his own tongue.

7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these who speak Galilaeans?

8 And how do we hear each one speak in our own tongue, with which we were brought up?

9 Parthians and Medes and Elamites and the dwellers in Mesopotamia and in Judaea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia,

10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,