Acts 2:11
They include native Jews as well as non-Jews who have accepted what we Jews believe. And others of us are from Crete Island and from the region of Arabia. So how is it that these people are speaking our languages [MTY], telling us about ◄the great/the mighty things► that God has done?”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
In Context
Cross References
1 Kings 10:15That was in addition to the taxes paid to him by the merchants and traders, and the annual taxes paid by the kings of Arabia and by the governors of the regions in Israel.
2 Chronicles 26:7God helped them to fight the army of Philistia and the Arabs who lived in the town of Gur-Baal and the descendants of Meun who had come to that area from Edom.
Psalms 26:7we sing songs to thank you, and we tell others the wonderful things that you have done.
Psalms 71:17God, you have taught me many/those things ever since I was young, and I still tell people about your wonderful deeds.
Psalms 78:4We will tell these things to our children [LIT], and we will also tell to our grandchildren about Yahweh’s power and the glorious/great things that he has done.
Psalms 96:3Tell about his glory/greatness to all people-groups; tell all people-groups the marvelous things that he has done.
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 →