Acts 10:46

For they heard them speak with diverse tongues, and magnify God.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,

In Context

45And the circumcised brethren who came with him, were amazed and astonished, that the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out upon the Gentiles also.

47And Simon said: Can any one forbid water, that those should not be baptized, they who have received, lo, the Holy Spirit, as well as we?

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Cross References

Mark 16:17And these signs shall attend them that believe: In my name, they will cast out demons; and in new tongues will they speak.

Acts 2:11and those from Crete, and Arabians. Lo, we hear them speak in our own languages the wonders of God.

1 Corinthians 14:20My brethren, be ye not children in your thoughts; but to evil things be ye infants; and in your thoughts be men.

Matthew Henry on Acts 10:45-48

The Effect of Peter's Sermon. 44 While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. 45 And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost. 46 For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter, 47 Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we? 48 And he commanded them to be… Read the whole commentary →

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