Commentary Critical and Explanatory
Acts 2:8
And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were burn?
And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were burn?
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...
WHEREIN WE WERE BORN - That is, as we say, in our native language; what is spoken where we were born....
CHAPTER 2 _ 1. The Outpouring of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:1)._ 2. The Immediate Effect of His Presence (Acts 2:5). 3. Peter's Address (Acts 2:14). 4. The Result of the Witness ...
THE EFFECT ON OUTSIDERS. The visitation has taken place in a house, but the noise is heard, not the speaking with tongues, all over the town; a crowd collects, made up of pious and thoughtful men, Jew...
So when the day of Pentecost came round, they were all together in one place; and all of a sudden there came from heaven a sound like that of a violent, rushing wind and it filled the whole house wher...
THE DAY OF PENTECOST (Acts 2:1-13) We may never know precisely what happened on the Day of Pentecost but we do know that it was one of the supremely great days of the Christian Church. for on that da...
TONGUE. Greek. _dialektos,_ as in Acts 2:6. WHEREIN. In (App-104.) which....
_every man in our own tongue_ i.e. language. There is no description here of any jargon or incoherent speech, we are told of utterances tested by the ears of those who had spoken these languages from...
Acts 2:1-13. THE HOLY GHOST GIVEN AT PENTECOST. EFFECT FIRST PRODUCED THEREBY ON THE DWELLERS AT JERUSALEM...
ΤΗ͂Ι ἸΔΊΑΙ ΔΙΑΛΈΚΤΩΙ. There is no description here of any jargon or incoherent speech. We are told of utterances tested by the ears of men who had spoken these languages from their youth. Cf. Chrysost...
_THE LOST ARE GATHERED ACTS 2:5-15:_ The sound like a rushing mighty wind and the tongues parting asunder like fire resulted in the multitude coming together. "There were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, d...
ΈΓΕΝΝΉΘΗΜΕΝ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΓΕΝΝΆΩ (G1080) вынашивать; _pass._ быть рожденным....
ARE NOT ALL THESE—GALILEANS? &C.— See on Matthew 26:73 and on John 1:46. The word διαλεκτος, Acts 2:8 signifies not only what we call a _dialect,_ or different way of speaking the same language, but a...
b. The result of the baptism. Acts 2:5-13. Acts 2:5 Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven. Acts 2:6 And when this sound was heard, the multitude cam...
See notes on verse 6...
20 It seems that Judas did not pay for the freehold, but returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests. They had a consultation, and used the money to complete the purchase. The freehold w...
THE DAY OF PENTECOST 1-13. Pentecost. On this day the risen Lord fulfilled His promise to send another Comforter (or Advocate) 'that He may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of Truth, whom the...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 2 THE *HOLY SPIRIT COMES AT *PENTECOST, 2:1-4 V1 On the day called *Pentecost, the *disciples were all together, in one place. V2 Immediately,...
AND HOW HEAR WE EVERY MAN IN OUR OWN TONGUE? — We have here, it is obvious, a composite utterance, in which the writer embodies the manifold expressions which came from those who represented the sever...
τῇ ἰδίᾳ διαλ … ἐν ᾗ ἐγεννήθημεν used distributively as Acts 2:11 ταῖς ἡμετ. γλώσσαις shows and hence cannot be taken to mean that only one language common to all, _viz._, Aramaic, was spoken on the ou...
SPEAKING IN STRANGE TONGUES Acts 2:1-13 The priests in the Temple were offering the first loaves of the new harvest, in celebration of the feast of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit came as the first f...
The first paragraph of this chapter records the first page of the history of the Church. It is seen as it began to form. The separated units of the disciples were fused into the new unity of the Churc...
The Audience Reaction Moses instructed that all males be present for the feast of Pentecost, so it is no surprise that Luke would say, "Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from ever...
(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 o...
DOUBLE MIRACLE 5-9. On this occasion an unprecedented double miracle was wrought by the Holy Ghost on not only the speakers but all the hearers. This double miracle moved like a span of cyclones throu...
_E. g_., while Peter was preaching in Greek the Parthian heard him in his native Chaldaic tongue, the Median, the Elamite and the Mesopotamian each heard in his own native dialect. And regardless of t...
And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. (6) Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man h...
First of all we see man in an entirely new place man risen from among the dead and ascending to heaven. The risen ascended man, Christ Jesus, is the new starting-point of the dealings of God. The firs...
Chapter 2 relates the fulfilment of this promise, in answer to the spirit of dependence manifested in their united prayers. The Spirit comes from above, in His own power, to possess and fill the dwel...
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 na...
And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? Ver. 8. _Every man in our our tongue_] Cleopatra was so skilful in the Eastern tongues that she could readily answer the Ethiopian,...
_And there were dwelling_ Or sojourning; _in Jerusalem, Jews_ Now gathered from all parts, by the peculiar providence of God; _devout_ Greek, ευλαβεις, _pious men, from every nation under heaven_ Shou...
HOW HEAR WE; we Parthians, Medes, and Elamites hear each in his own tongue....
The effect of the miracle upon the multitude:...
AND HOW HEAR WE EVERY MAN IN OUR OWN TONGUE WHEREIN WE WERE BORN?...
The feast of Pentecost in Israel looked forward to the very day on which God had decreed that the Spirit of God should come to form and indwell and empower the Church of God, which Christ had declared...
AND HOW _IS IT THAT_ WE HEAR, EACH IN OUR OWN LANGUAGE IN WHICH WE WERE BORN? 1. How can they speak speak our language? 2. This is the language of our birth, our mother tongue. How can they know it?...
And how hear we, every man in our own language wherein we were born? 'AND HOW HEAR WE'-'And how is it' (NASV) We might say, 'How are they doing that?' 'IN OUR OWN LANGUAGE WHEREIN WE WERE BORN'-Even...
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 h...
OLBGrk; Dialektov signifies commonly a different way of speaking, or pronouncing in the same language; as our southern, and northern men differ in some words and pronunciation, though speaking both t...
Acts 2:8 And G2532 how G4459 we G2249 hear G191 (G5719) each G1538 our G2257 own G2398 language...
‘And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying, Behold, are not all these that speak Galileans? And how hear we, every man in our own language wherein we were born? Parthians and Medes and Elamites,...
THE REACTION OF THE HEARERS (2:5-13)....
Acts 2:8. IN OUR OWN TONGUE, WHEREIN WE WERE BORN. Foreign Jews had long lost their acquaintance with Hebrew and its various dialects. The translation of the LXX. bore witness to the wide diffusion of...
TONGUE language....
Acts 2:1 Pentecost I. The congregation in that upper room was the representative, or, as it were, the seed-germ, of the whole Catholic Church of all the centuries and of every land. For a symbol of t...
Acts 2 We have here the history of the first Christian revival. Let us trace it through, and mark at once its origin and its characteristics. I. It was ushered in by prayer. Like true children of God...
Acts 2:7 I. There are but two postulates necessary to the faith of Pentecost, or Whitsuntide: the first, God is Almighty; and the second, Christianity is of God. Given these two principles, all is int...
We cannot too often read the story of that wondrous outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost; and let us never read it without asking the Lord to manifest in our midst the fullness of the...
Acts 2:1. And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. «And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the hous...
Acts 2:1. _And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place._ The first lesson that we ought to learn from this inspired record of what happened on the day of...
CONTENTS: Holy Spirit's coming on day of Pentecost. The gospel given to the Jews. Peter's great sermon on the resurrected Christ, and the conviction of the people. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit...
Acts 2:1. _The day of Pentecost._ The fiftieth day after our Lord's resurrection, and the day when the sheaf of the firstfruits was offered. Though the feast of Pentecost was but one day, yet like the...
_And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation._ THE FIRST CONGREGATION APPEALED TO BY THE APOSTLES I. It consisted of men of many lands. The fifteen countries remind us...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 2:5. DWELLING AT JERUSALEM.—Not. “permanently residing” only, a sense the word usually has in Luke’s writings (Luke 1:19; Luke 4:16; Luke 13:4
EXPOSITION ACTS 2:1 _Was now come _for _was fully come, _A.V.; _all together _for _with one accord, _A.V. and T.R. WHEN THE DAY OF PENTECOST WAS NOW COME; literally, _when the day of Pentecost_—_i.e....
Now when the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:1) This would be feast day following the Passover, of which Jesus was crucified. And fifty days after the Passover, the second major Jewish feast, the Feast of Pe...
THE RESULTS OF PENTECOST Acts 2:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Before Christ went away He said unto the disciples, "Behold, I send the promise of My Father upon you: but tarry ye in Jerusalem, until ye be en...