Acts 2:12
And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying to one another, “What would this wish to be?”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?
In Context
11Cretes and Arabians, we heard them speaking the great things of God in our tongues.”
13And others mocking said, “They are full of sweet wine”;
Cross References
Luke 15:26and having called near one of the young men, he was inquiring what these things might be,
Acts 2:7and they were all amazed, and wondered, saying to one another, “Behold, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?
Acts 17:20for you bring certain strange things to our ears? We resolve, then, to know what these things would wish to be”;
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 →