Acts 2:11

Cretans and Arabians, we do hear them speaking in our own tongues the magnificent things of God.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.

In Context

10Phrygia also and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of the Libya that is towards Cyrene, and the sojourning Romans,—both Jews and proselytes,

12But they were all beside themselves and were utterly at a loss, saying one to another—What doth this please to be?

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Cross References

1 Kings 10:15besides the tribute of the subjugated, and of the travelling merchants,—and of all the kings of Arabia, and the pashas of the land.

2 Chronicles 26:7And God helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabians who dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Meunim.

Psalms 26:7To sound aloud a song, and to recount all thy wonderful doings.

Psalms 71:17O God, thou hast taught me from my youthful days, And, hitherto, have I been wont to tell of thy wonders;

Psalms 78:4We will not withhold [them] from their children, To a later generation, recounting the praises of Yahweh, Even his might and his wonders which he wrought;

Psalms 96:3Recount, Among the nations, his glory, Among all the peoples, his wonders.

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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