Acts 2:6

And when that sound occurred, all the people collected together; and they were agitated, because they every one heard them speaking in their own languages.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.

In Context

5Now there were resident at Jerusalem persons who feared God, Jews from all the nations under heaven.

7And they were all astonished, and wondered, saying one to another: All these who speak behold, are they not Galileans?

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Cross References

Acts 2:2suddenly there was a sound from heaven, as of a violent wind; and the whole house where they were sitting was filled with it.

1 Corinthians 16:9because a great door is opened to me, which is full of occupations; and the opposers are numerous.

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 →

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