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Acts 2:11
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Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the magnificent acts of God in our own tongues.”
Cretes, and Arabians, we doe heare them speake in our tongues the wonderfull workes of God.
Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians—we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God."
Cretans and Arabs—we hear them speaking in our own tongues of the mighty deeds of God."
(both Jews and those who had become Jews), Crete, and Arabia. But we hear them telling in our own languages about the great things God has done!"
Cretans and Arabs—we all hear them speaking in our [native] tongues about the mighty works of God!"
Cretans and Arabs—we hear them in our own tongues speaking of the mighty deeds of God."
Cretans and Arabs—we hear them in our own tongues speaking of the mighty deeds of God."
both Jews and converts to Judaism; Cretans and Arabs-we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!"
Crete, and Arabia. Some of us were born Jews, and others of us have chosen to be Jews. Yet we all hear them using our own languages to tell the wonderful things God has done.
Cretans and Arabians, we hear them speaking in our own tongues the great things of God?
Crete, and Arabia. Some of us were born Jews, and others have changed their religion to worship God like Jews. We are from these different countries, but we can hear these men in our own languages! We can all understand the great things they are saying about God."
Creetes, and Arabians: wee hearde them speake in our owne tongues the wonderful works of God.
And those from Crete, and Arabians, behold we hear them speak in our own tongues of the wonderful works of God.
both Jews and Gentiles converted to Judaism, and some of us are from Crete and Arabia—yet all of us hear them speaking in our own languages about the great things that God has done!"
both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs—we hear them speaking in our own languages the great deeds of God!"
Cretans and Arabians; in our own languages we hear them speaking the great deeds of God?
Cretans and Arabians, we hear them speaking in our tongues the mighty works of God.
Men of Crete and Arabia, to all of us they are talking in our different languages, of the great works of God.
Cretans and `Aravi'im: we hear them speaking in our languages the mighty works of God!"
We are Jews, proselytes, Cretans, and Arabs. Yet we hear them telling in our own tongues the great deeds of God!"
and from Krete and Arabia, behold, we hear them speaking in our tongues the wonders of Aloha.
and those from Crete, and Arabians. Lo, we hear them speak in our own languages the wonders of God.
Cretes and Arabians: we haue hearde them speake in our tongues, the wonderfull workes of God.
Cretans and Arabians, we do hear them speaking in our tongues the mighty works of God.
Cretans and Arabians: we hear them speaking in our languages the mighty works of God!"
we hear them speaking in our tongues the wonderful works of God?
Yet we all alike hear these Galilaeans speaking in our own language about the wonderful things which God has done."
and proselitis, men of Crete, and of Arabie, we han herd hem spekynge in oure langagis the grete thingis of God.
both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians, we hear them speaking in our tongues the mighty works of God.
Cretes and Arabians we hear them speak in our languages the wonderful works of God.
both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs—we hear them speaking in our own languages about the great deeds God has done!"
Cretans and Arabs--we hear them speaking in our own tongues the wonderful works of God."
(both Jews and converts to Judaism), Cretans, and Arabs. And we all hear these people speaking in our own languages about the wonderful things God has done!"
Some are also men of the countries of Crete and Arabia. They are speaking of the powerful works of God to all of us in our own language!"
Cretans and Arabs—in our own languages we hear them speaking about God's deeds of power."
Cretans and Arabians, we do hear them speaking in our own tongues the magnificent things of God.
Jews also, and proselytes, Cretes, and Arabians: we have heard them speak in our own tongues the wonderful works of God.
Cretans and Arabians, we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God."
Grekes and Arabians: we have herde them speake with oure awne tonges the greate workes of God.
Cretes and Arabians, we did hear them speaking in our tongues the great things of God.'
Cretes and Arabians: we heare them speake with oure awne tunges the greate workes of God.
Cretes, and Arabians, we hear them all proclaiming in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
(both Jews and Jewish converts), Cretans, and Arabs. And all of these are hearing twelve cowboys speak in the people's native language about the great things God has done!"
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Cretes: Acts 27:7, Acts 27:12, Titus 1:5, Titus 1:12
Arabians: 1 Kings 10:15, 2 Chronicles 17:11, 2 Chronicles 26:7, Isaiah 13:20, Isaiah 21:13, Jeremiah 3:2, Jeremiah 25:24, Galatians 1:17, Galatians 4:25
wonderful: Exodus 15:11, Job 9:10, Psalms 26:7, Psalms 40:5, Psalms 71:17, Psalms 77:11, Psalms 78:4, Psalms 89:5, Psalms 96:3, Psalms 107:8, Psalms 107:15, Psalms 107:21, Psalms 111:4, Psalms 136:4, Isaiah 25:1, Isaiah 28:29, Daniel 4:2, Daniel 4:3, 1 Corinthians 12:10, 1 Corinthians 12:28, Hebrews 2:4
Reciprocal: Psalms 98:1 - for he Psalms 119:27 - so shall I talk Song of Solomon 7:9 - the best Ezekiel 27:21 - Arabia Acts 2:3 - cloven Acts 2:4 - began Acts 10:46 - speak
Cross-References
The sons of Kush were S'va, Havilah, Savta, Ra‘mah and Savt'kha. The sons of Ra‘mah were Sh'va and D'dan.
Ofir, Havilah and Yovav — all these were the sons of Yoktan.
Yishma‘el's sons lived between Havilah and Shur, near Egypt as you go toward Ashur; he settled near all his kinsmen. Haftarah Hayyei-Sarah: M'lakhim Alef (1 Kings) 1:1–31 B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Hayyei-Sarah: Mattityahu (Matthew) 8:19–22; 27:3–10; Luke 9:57–62 Here is the history of Yitz'chak, Avraham's son. Avraham fathered Yitz'chak. Yitz'chak was forty years old when he took Rivkah, the daughter of B'tu'el the Arami from Paddan-Aram and sister of Lavan the Arami, to be his wife. Yitz'chak prayed to Adonai on behalf of his wife, because she was childless. Adonai heeded his prayer, and Rivkah became pregnant. The children fought with each other inside her so much that she said, "If it's going to be like this, why go on living?" So she went to inquire of Adonai , who answered her, "There are two nations in your womb. From birth they will be two rival peoples. One of these peoples will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger." When the time for her delivery came, there were twins in her womb. The first to come out was reddish and covered all over with hair, like a coat; so they named him ‘Esav [completely formed, that is, having hair already]. Then his brother emerged, with his hand holding ‘Esav's heel, so he was called Ya‘akov [he catches by the heel, he supplants]. Yitz'chak was sixty years old when she bore them. The boys grew; and ‘Esav became a skillful hunter, an outdoorsman; while Ya‘akov was a quiet man who stayed in the tents. Yitz'chak favored ‘Esav, because he had a taste for game; Rivkah favored Ya‘akov. One day when Ya‘akov had cooked some stew, ‘Esav came in from the open country, exhausted, and said to Ya‘akov, "Please! Let me gulp down some of that red stuff — that red stuff! I'm exhausted!" (This is why he was called Edom [red].) Ya‘akov answered, "First sell me your rights as the firstborn." "Look, I'm about to die!" said ‘Esav. "What use to me are my rights as the firstborn?" Ya‘akov said, "First, swear to me!" So he swore to him, thus selling his birthright to Ya‘akov. Then Ya‘akov gave him bread and lentil stew; he ate and drank, got up and went on his way. Thus ‘Esav showed how little he valued his birthright.
Then Sha'ul attacked ‘Amalek, starting at Havilah and continuing toward Shur, at the border of Egypt.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Cretes and Arabians,.... The former are either the same with the Cretians, Titus 1:12 the inhabitants of the island of Crete, Acts 27:7 now called Candia or Candy, which has on the north the Aegean sea, on the south the Libyan or African sea, on the west the Adriatic sea, and on the east the Carpathian sea. In it were an hundred cities; the most famous of which were, Gnosos, Cortyna, Lyctos, Lycastos, Holopixos, Phaestos, Cydon, Manethusa, Dyctynna e, and others; these spoke the Greek language; yet not the Attic, for the Cretian and Attic speech are distinguished f: or else, as Dr. Lightfoot thinks, these were the same with the Cherethim or Cherethites, in Ezekiel 25:16 whom the Septuagint interpreters call Cretes, as here; since these are mentioned with the Philistines, to whose land Arabia joined; the inhabitants of which are next mentioned here. There were three Arabias; Arabia Petraea, which had on the west part of Egypt, and on the north Judea, and part of Syria, on the south the Red sea, and on the east Arabia Felix. The second was called Arabia Deserta, and had on the north part of Mesopotamia, and on the east Babylonia, on the south Arabia Felix, and on the west, part of Syria and Arabia Petraea. The third was called Arabia Felix, and had on the north the south sides of Petraea and Arabia Deserta, and the more southern part of the Persian gulf, on the west the gulf of Arabia, and on the south the Red sea, and on the east, part of the Persian gulf g; and here dwelt Jews who spoke the Arabic language. Now these Jews, of different nations, declared concerning the apostles, saying,
we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God; not the works of creation and providence, though these are great and wonderful; but of redemption, pardon, atonement, justification, and salvation, by the Messiah, by his obedience, sufferings, and death, and also of his resurrection from the dead; things which struck them with amazement, and the more, that such illiterate persons should have such knowledge of them, and should be able to speak of them in such a clear, distinct, and powerful manner; and still the more, that they should speak of them in their several tongues in which they were born, and to which they were used, and which the apostles had never learned: and this they heard with their own ears, and were fully satisfied that they did speak divers languages.
e Mela, l. 2. c. 14. Vid. Solin. c. 16. & Plin. l. 4. c. 12. f Laert. in. vit. Epimenidis. g Ptolom. Geograph. l. 5. c. 17, & 19. & l. 6. c. 7.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Cretes - Crete, now called Candia, is an island in the Mediterranean, about 200 miles in length and 50 in breadth, about 500 miles southwest of Constantinople, and about the same distance west of Syria or Palestine. The climate is mild and delightful, the sky unclouded and serene. By some this island is supposed to be the Caphtor of the Hebrews, Genesis 10:14. It is mentioned in the Acts as the place touched at by Paul, Acts 27:7-8, Acts 27:13. This was the residence of Titus, who was left there by Paulâ to set in order the things that were missing,â etc., Titus 1:5. The Cretans among the Greeks were famous for deceit and falsehood. See the notes on Titus 1:12-13. The language spoken there was probably the Greek.
Arabians - Arabia is the great peninsula which is bounded north by part of Syria, east by the Euphrates and the Persian Gulf, south by the Indian Ocean, and west by the Red Sea. It is often mentioned in the Scriptures; and there were doubtless there many Jews. The language spoken there was the Arabic.
In our tongues - The languages spoken by the apostles could not have been less than seven or eight, besides different dialects of the same languages. It is not certain that the Jews present from foreign nations spoke those languages perfectly, but they had doubtless so used them as to make them the common tongue in which they conversed. No miracle could be more decided than this. There was no way in which the apostles could impose on them, and make them suppose they spoke foreign languages, if they really did not; for these foreigners were abundantly able to determine that. It may be remarked that this miracle had most important effects besides that witnessed on the day of Pentecost. The gospel would be carried by those who were converted to all these places, and the way would be prepared for the labors of the apostles there. Accordingly, most of these places became afterward celebrated by the establishment of Christian churches and the conversion of great multitudes to the Christian faith.
The wonderful works of God - ÏÎ±Ì Î¼ÎµÎ³Î±Î»ÎµÎ¹Ìα ÏÎ¿Ï Í ÎÎµÎ¿Ï Í ta megaleia tou Theou. The great things of God; that is, the great things that God had done in the gift of his Son; in raising him from the dead; in his miracles, ascension, etc. Compare Luke 1:49; Psalms 71:19; Psalms 26:7; Psalms 66:3; Psalms 92:5; Psalms 104:24; etc.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Acts 2:11. Cretes — Natives of Crete, a large and noted island in the Levant, or eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea, now called Candia.
Arabians — Natives of Arabia, a well known country of Asia, having the Red Sea on the west; the Persian Gulf on the east; Judea on the north; and the Indian Ocean on the south.
The wonderful works of God. — Such as the incarnation of Christ; his various miracles, preaching, death, resurrection, and ascension; and the design of God to save the world through him. From this one circumstance we may learn that all the people enumerated above were either Jews or proselytes; and that there was probably none that could be, strictly speaking, called heathens among them. It may at first appear strange that there could be found Jews in so many different countries, some of which were very remote from the others; but there is a passage in Philo's Embassy to Caius which throws considerable light on the subject. In a letter sent to Caius by King Agrippa, he speaks of to the holy city of Jerusalem, not merely as the metropolis of Judea, but of many other regions, because of the colonies at different times led out of Judea, not only into neighbouring countries, such as Egypt, Phoenicia, Syria, and Coelosyria, but also into those that are remote, such as Pamphylia, Cilicia, and the chief parts of Asia as far as Bithynia, and the innermost parts of Pontus; also in the regions of Europe, Thessaly, Boeotia, Macedonia, AEtolia, Attica, Argos, Corinth, and the principal parts of Peloponnesus. Not only the continents and provinces (says he) are full of Jewish colonies, but the most celebrated isles also, Euboea, Cyprus, and Crete, not to mention the countries beyond the Euphrates. All these (a small part of Babylon and some other praefectures excepted, which possess fertile territories) are inhabited by Jews. Not only my native city entreats thy clemency, but other cities also, situated in different parts of the world, Asia, Europe, Africa; both islands, sea coasts, and inland countries." PHILONIS Opera, edit. Mangey, vol. ii. p. 587.
It is worthy of remark that almost all the places and provinces mentioned by St. Luke are mentioned also in this letter of King Agrippa. These, being all Jews or proselytes, could understand in some measure the wonderful works of God, of which mere heathens could have formed no conception. It was wisely ordered that the miraculous descent of the Holy Ghost should take place at this time, when so many from various nations were present to bear witness to what was done, and to be themselves subjects of his mighty working. These, on their return to their respective countries, would naturally proclaim what things they saw and heard; and by this the way of the apostles was made plain; and thus Christianity made a rapid progress over all those parts in a very short time after the resurrection of our Lord.
