Acts 2:12

They were all amazed, and were perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?”

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WEBBE

They were all amazed and were perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?”

BSB

Astounded and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?”

KJV

And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?

ASV

And they were all amazed, and were perplexed, saying one to another, What meaneth this?

BBE

And they were all surprised and in doubt saying to one another, What is the reason of this?

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Well then might they be in doubt: for never had the like occurred. Observe the ingenuousness of these men. They were amazed and were in doubt, saying, "What meaneth this?" But "others mocking said, 'These men are full of new wine'" and therefore mocked. O the effrontery! And what wonder is it? Since even of the Lord Himself, when casting out devils, they said that He had a devil! For so it is; wherever impudent assurance exists, it has but one object in view, to speak at all hazards, it cares not what; not that the man should say something real and relevant to the matter of discourse, but that he should speak no matter what. "They are full of new wine." Quite a thing of course, that men in the midst of such dangers, and dreading the worst, and in such despondency, have the courage to utter such things! And observe: since this was unlikely; because they would not have been drinking much at that early hour, they ascribe the whole matter to the quality of the wine, and say, "They are full" of it.
John Chrysostom · d. 407Homilies on Acts
"And, they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this? Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine." O the excessive folly! O the excessive malignity! Why it was not even the season for that; for it was Pentecost. For this was what made it worse: that when those were confessing-men that were Jews, that were Romans, that were proselytes, yea perhaps that had crucified Him-yet these, after so great signs, say, "They are full of new wine!"
John Chrysostom · d. 407Homilies on Acts

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 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.

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