Acts 2:8

8 And how do we hear, each one [of us], in {our own native language}?

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 And [when] this sound occurred, the crowd gathered and was in confusion, because each one was hearing them speaking in his own language.

7 And they were astounded and astonished, saying, "Behold, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

8 And how do we hear, each one [of us], in {our own native language}?

9 Parthians and Medes and Elamites and those residing [in] Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya toward Cyrene, and the Romans who were in town,

Footnotes

• [a] Literally "our own language in which we were born"