| Acts 2:8 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | "And how is it that we each hear them in our own language to which we were born? (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | Why do we hear them speaking in our native dialects?(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? |
| ASV: | And how hear we, every man in our own language wherein we were born? |
| BBE: | And how is it that every one of us is hearing their words in the language which was ours from our birth? |
| DBY: | and how do we hear them each in our own dialect in which we have been born, |
| ERV: | And how hear we, every man in our own language, wherein we were born? |
| WEY: | How then does each of us hear his own native language spoken by them? |
| WBS: | And how do we hear every man in our own language, wherein we were born? |
| WEB: | How do we hear, everyone in our own native language? |
| YLT: | and how do we hear, each in our proper dialect, in which we were born? |
| Acts 2:8 Cross References |
| XREF: | Acts 2:7 They were amazed and astonished, saying, "Why, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?
Acts 2:9 "Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 2:8 {e} And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
(e) Not that they spoke one language, and different languages were heard, but the apostles spoke with different languages: for otherwise the miracle would have been in the hearers, whereas it is really in the speakers; Nazianzen in his oration of Whitsunday. |
| PNT: | 2:7,8 Are not all these who speak Galileans? Most of the disciples to this time were. The Galileans were not generally learned men, yet now all hear, every man his own tongue. |
| MHC: | 2:5-13 The difference in languages which arose at Babel, has much hindered the spread of knowledge and religion. The instruments whom the Lord first employed in spreading the Christian religion, could have made no progress without this gift, which proved that their authority was from God. |
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