Acts 2:8

And how do we hear, each his own language, in which we were born?

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?

In Context

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

9Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and those dwelling between the rivers, Jews and Cappadocians, and those from the region of Pontus and of Asia,

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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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