Acts 2:8 Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language?

◄ Acts 2:8 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language?

English Standard Version
And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language?

New American Standard Bible
"And how is it that we each hear them in our own language to which we were born?

King James Bible
And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
How is it that each of us can hear 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:

American Standard Version
And how hear we, every man in our own language wherein we were born?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And how have we heard, every man our own tongue wherein we were born?

Darby Bible Translation
and how do we hear them each in our own dialect in which we have been born,

Young's Literal Translation
and how do we hear, each in our proper dialect, in which we were born?

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

5-11. there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men out of every nation—not, it would seem, permanently settled there (see Ac 2:9), though the language seems to imply more than a temporary visit to keep this one feast.