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Acts 2:8

"Then how is it that each of us hears in our own language or native dialect?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Feasts;   Language;   Orator;   Prophecy;   Readings, Select;   Revivals;   Testimony;   Tongue;   Scofield Reference Index - Repentance;   Thompson Chain Reference - Awakenings and Religious Reforms;   Awakenings, Religious;   Holy Spirit;   Spirit;   The Topic Concordance - Tongues;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Emblems of the Holy Spirit, the;   Feasts, the Anniversary;   Language;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ascension;   Babel;   Language;   Miracle;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Tongues;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Baptism of the Holy Spirit;   Forgiveness;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Baptism ;   Gift of Tongues;   Hearing the Word of God;   Holy Ghost;   Worship of God;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Gospels;   Tongues, Gift of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Acts;   Black People and Biblical Perspectives;   Church;   Community of Goods;   Pilgrimage;   Spiritual Gifts;   Worship;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Communion;   Mark, Gospel According to;   Pentecost, Feast of;   Thessalonians, Second Epistle to the;   Tongues, Gift of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Boyhood of Jesus;   Fire;   Galatians Epistle to the;   Proverbs ;   Righteous, Righteousness;   Tongue ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ascension;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Language;   Pentecost;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Judah;   Pentecost;   Peter;   Tongues;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Tongues, Gift of;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Twelve Apostles, the;   Kingdom or Church of Christ, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - How;   Tongue;   Tongues, Gift of;   Tongues of Fire;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Bible Translations;   Jerusalem;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
But we hear them in our own languages. How is this possible? We are from all these different places:
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And how heare we every man his awne touge wherein we were boren?
Hebrew Names Version
How do we hear, everyone in our own native language?
International Standard Version
So how is it that each one of us hears them speaking in his own native language?in our language in which we were born">[fn]
New American Standard Bible
"And how is it that we each hear them in our own language to which we were born?
New Century Version
Then how is it possible that we each hear them in our own languages? We are from different places:
Update Bible Version
And how do we hear every man in our own language wherein we were born?
Webster's Bible Translation
And how do we hear every man in our own language, wherein we were born?
English Standard Version
And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language?
World English Bible
How do we hear, everyone in our own native language?
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And how hear we every one, in our own native language?
Weymouth's New Testament
How then does each of us hear his own native language spoken by them?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and hou herden we ech man his langage in which we ben borun?
English Revised Version
And how hear we, every man in our own language, wherein we were born?
Berean Standard Bible
How is it then that each of us hears them in his own native language?
Contemporary English Version
Then why do we hear them speaking our very own languages?
American Standard Version
And how hear we, every man in our own language wherein we were born?
Bible in Basic English
And how is it that every one of us is hearing their words in the language which was ours from our birth?
Complete Jewish Bible
How is it that we hear them speaking in our native languages?
Darby Translation
and how do *we* hear [them] each in our own dialect in which we have been born,
Etheridge Translation
How hear we (then) each in his own tongue in which we were born?
Murdock Translation
And how do we hear, each his own language, in which we were born?
King James Version (1611)
And how heare we euery man in our owne tongue, wherein we were borne?
New Living Translation
and yet we hear them speaking in our own native languages!
New Life Bible
How is it that each one of us can hear his own language?
New Revised Standard
And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language?
Geneva Bible (1587)
How then heare we euery man our owne language, wherein we were borne?
George Lamsa Translation
How is it that we hear every man in our own native language?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
How then do, we, hear each one in our own language in which we were born?
Douay-Rheims Bible
And how have we heard, every man our own tongue wherein we were born?
Revised Standard Version
And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And howe heare we euery man his owne tongue, wherin we were borne?
Good News Translation
How is it, then, that all of us hear them speaking in our own native languages?
Christian Standard Bible®
How is it that each of us can hear them in our own native language?
King James Version
And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
Lexham English Bible
And how do we hear, each one of us, in our own native language?
Literal Translation
And how do we hear each in our own dialect in which we were born,
Young's Literal Translation
and how do we hear, each in our proper dialect, in which we were born?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
How heare we the euery one his awne tunge, wherin we were borne?
Mace New Testament (1729)
how comes it then that we hear every man talking in our own native tongue?
New English Translation
And how is it that each one of us hears them in our own native language?
New King James Version
And how is it that we hear, each in our own language in which we were born?
Simplified Cowboy Version
How can they speak our languages?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"And how is it that we each hear them in our own language to which we were born?
Legacy Standard Bible
And how is it that we each hear them in our own language in which we were born?

Contextual Overview

5Now there were Jews living in Jerusalem, devout and God-fearing men from every nation under heaven. 6And when this sound was heard, a crowd gathered, and they were bewildered because each one was hearing those in the upper room speaking in his own language or dialect. 7They were completely astonished, saying, "Look! Are not all of these who are speaking Galileans? 8"Then how is it that each of us hears in our own language or native dialect?9"[Among us there are] Parthians, Medes and Elamites, and people of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia [Minor], 10Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the districts of Libya around Cyrene, and the visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes (Gentile converts to Judaism), 11Cretans and Arabs—we all hear them speaking in our [native] tongues about the mighty works of God!" 12And they were beside themselves with amazement and were greatly perplexed, saying one to another, "What could this mean?" 13But others were laughing and joking and ridiculing them, saying, "They are full of sweet wine and are drunk!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 10:11 - What is this Psalms 145:12 - make known 1 Corinthians 12:28 - diversities

Cross-References

Genesis 2:8
And the LORD God planted a garden (oasis) in the east, in Eden (delight, land of happiness); and He put the man whom He had formed (created) there.
Genesis 2:9
And [in that garden] the LORD God caused to grow from the ground every tree that is desirable and pleasing to the sight and good (suitable, pleasant) for food; the tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the [experiential] knowledge (recognition) of [the difference between] good and evil.
Genesis 3:24
So God drove the man out; and at the east of the Garden of Eden He [permanently] stationed the cherubim and the sword with the flashing blade which turned round and round [in every direction] to protect and guard the way (entrance, access) to the tree of life.
Genesis 4:16
So Cain went away from the [manifested] presence of the LORD, and lived in the land of Nod [wandering in exile], east of Eden.
Genesis 13:10
So Lot looked and saw that the valley of the Jordan was well watered everywhere—this was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah; [it was all] like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar [at the south end of the Dead Sea].
2 Kings 19:12
'Did the gods of the nations whom my forefathers destroyed rescue them—Gozan and Haran [of Mesopotamia] and Rezeph and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?
Isaiah 51:3
For the LORD will comfort Zion [in her captivity]; He will comfort all her ruins. And He will make her wilderness like Eden, And her desert like the garden of the LORD; Joy and gladness will be found in her, Thanksgiving and the voice of a melody.
Ezekiel 27:23
"Haran and Canneh and Eden [in Mesopotamia], the merchants of Sheba [on the Euphrates], Asshur and Chilmad traded with you.
Ezekiel 28:13
"You were in Eden, the garden of God; Every precious stone was your covering: The ruby, the topaz, and the diamond; The beryl, the onyx, and the jasper; The lapis lazuli, the turquoise, and the emerald; And the gold, the workmanship of your settings and your sockets, Was in you. They were prepared On the day that you were created.
Ezekiel 31:16
"I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall when I cast it down to Sheol with those who descend into the pit; and all the well-watered trees of Eden, the choicest and the best of Lebanon, will be comforted in the earth beneath [at Assyria's downfall].

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And how hear we every man in our own tongue,.... Them speaking, as the Ethiopic version reads; that is, we everyone of us hear one or another, speak in the same language,

wherein we were born; our native language; for though these men were Jews by descent, yet were born and brought up in other countries, which language they spake; and not the Hebrew, or Syriac, or Chaldee.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wherein we were born - That is, as we say, in our native language; what is spoken where we were born.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 2:8. How hear we every man in our own tongue — Some have supposed from this that the miracle was not so much wrought on the disciples as on their hearers: imagining that, although the disciples spoke their own tongue, yet every man so understood what was spoken as if it had been spoken in the language in which he was born. Though this is by no means so likely as the opinion which states that the disciples themselves spoke all these different languages, yet the miracle is the same, howsoever it be taken; for it must require as much of the miraculous power of God to enable an Arab to understand a Galilean, as to enable a Galilean to speak Arabic. But that the gift of tongues was actually given to the apostles, we have the fullest proof; as we find particular ordinances laid down by those very apostles for the regulation of the exercise of this gift; see 1 Corinthians 14:1, &c.


 
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