Acts 2:8

8 Why, then, do we each hear them speaking 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 A crowd came together when they heard the sound. They were bewildered because they each heard the believers speaking in their own language.

7 The crowd was really amazed. They asked, "Aren't all these people from Galilee?

8 Why, then, do we each hear them speaking in our own native language?

9 We are Parthians, Medes and Elamites. We live in Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia. We are from Pontus, Asia,

10 Phrygia and Pamphylia. Others of us are from Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene. Still others are visitors from Rome.