Acts 2:8

8 Then how is it possible that we each hear them in our own languages? We are from different places:

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 When they heard this noise, a crowd came together. They were all surprised, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

7 They were completely amazed at this. They said, "Look! Aren't all these people that we hear speaking from Galilee?

8 Then how is it possible that we each hear them in our own languages? We are from different places:

9 Parthia, Media, Elam, Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia,

10 Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt, the areas of Libya near Cyrene, Rome