Acts 2:11
likewise Jews and new converts, Cretans and Arabs: we have heard them speaking in our own languages the mighty deeds of God.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
In Context
12And they were all astonished, and they wondered, saying to one another: “But what does this mean?”
Cross References
1 Kings 10:15aside from what was brought to him by the men who were over the tributes, and by the merchants, and by those selling every kind of small item, and by all the kings of Arabia, and by the rulers of the land.
2 Chronicles 26:7And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians, who were living in Gurbaal, and against the Ammonites.
Psalms 26:7Hear my voice, O Lord, with which I have cried out to you. Have mercy on me, and hear me.
Psalms 71:17May his name be blessed forever; may his name remain before the sun. And all the tribes of the earth will be blessed in him. All nations will magnify him.
Psalms 78:4We have become a disgrace to our neighbors, an object of ridicule and mockery to those who are around us.
Psalms 96:3A fire will precede him, and it will enflame his enemies all around.
Matthew Henry on Acts 2:6-14
The Day of Pentecost. 5 And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. 6 Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. 7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilæans? 8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? 9 Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in… Read the whole commentary →