Acts 2:8

How do we hear, everyone in our own native language?

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WEBBE

How do we hear, everyone in our own native language?

BSB

How is it then that each of us hears them in his own native language?

KJV

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

ASV

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

BBE

And how is it that every one of us is hearing their words in the language which was ours from our birth?

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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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