Acts 2:7
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New International Version (©2011)
Utterly amazed, they asked: "Aren't all these who are speaking Galileans?

New Living Translation (©2007)
They were completely amazed. "How can this be?" they exclaimed. "These people are all from Galilee,

English Standard Version (©2001)
And they were amazed and astonished, saying, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
They were amazed and astonished, saying, "Why, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
And they were astounded and amazed, saying, "Look, aren't all these who are speaking Galileans?

International Standard Version (©2012)
Stunned and amazed, they asked, "All of these people who are speaking are Galileans, aren't they?

NET Bible (©2006)
Completely baffled, they said, "Aren't all these who are speaking Galileans?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
And they were all marveling and were amazed as they were saying, each to the other, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans?”

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Stunned and amazed, the people in the crowd said, "All of these men who are speaking are Galileans.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And they were all amazed and marveled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these who speak Galileans?

American King James Version
And they were all amazed and marveled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?

American Standard Version
And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying, Behold, are not all these that speak Galilaeans?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they were all amazed, and wondered, saying: Behold, are not all these, that speak, Galileans?

Darby Bible Translation
And all were amazed and wondered, saying, Behold, are not all these who are speaking Galilaeans?

English Revised Version
And they were all amazed and marveled, saying, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?

Webster's Bible Translation
And they were all amazed, and marveled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these who speak Galileans?

Weymouth New Testament
They were beside themselves with wonder, and exclaimed, "Are not all these speakers Galilaeans?

World English Bible
They were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, "Behold, aren't all these who speak Galileans?

Young's Literal Translation
and they were all amazed, and did wonder, saying one unto another, 'Lo, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

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.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 7. - Saying for saying one to another, A.V. and T.R. Amazed (ἐξίσταντο; see Acts 8:9, note). Galilaeans; describing merely their nationality. The Galilaean accent was peculiar and well known (see Mark 14:70; Luke 22:59 Matt, 26:73).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And they were all amazed, and marvelled,.... They were struck with surprise, they were as it were out of themselves, like persons in an ecstasy, not knowing what could be the cause or meaning of this:

saying one to another; the phrase "one to another", is left out in the Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions, and so it is in the Alexandrian copy:

behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? rude, unpolished, and unlearned men; who had never been brought up in any school of learning, and had never learned any language but their mother tongue; and that they pronounced with an ill grace, and in a very odd manner; and which made the thing the more astonishing to them. The apostles were inhabitants of Galilee, and so very likely were the greatest part of those that were with them: hence the Christians afterwards, by way of contempt, were called Galilaeans; as they are by Julian (x) the apostate, and others (y),

(x) Opera, par. 1. Fragment. p. 557. & par. 2. Ep. 49. p. 203, 204. (y) Arrian. Epictet. l. 4. c. 7.

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The Holy Spirit at Pentecost
…6Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. 7And they were all amazed and marveled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? 8And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? …

Matthew 8:10 When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to those following him, "Truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith.
Matthew 26:73 After a little while, those standing there went up to Peter and said, "Surely you are one of them; your accent gives you away."
Acts 1:11 "Men of Galilee," they said, "why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven."
Acts 2:8 Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language?
Acts 2:12 Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, "What does this mean?"