Acts 2:12
But they were all beside themselves and were utterly at a loss, saying one to another—What doth this please to be?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?
In Context
11Cretans and Arabians, we do hear them speaking in our own tongues the magnificent things of God.
13While, others, in mockery were saying—With sweet wine, are they drunken!
Cross References
Luke 15:26and, calling near one of the youths, he inquired what these things, could be.
Acts 2:7Yea they were beside themselves and did marvel, saying—Lo! are not all these who are speaking Galilaeans?
Acts 17:20For, certain foreign things, art thou bringing into our hearing: We are minded to get to know, therefore, what these things please to be!
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 →