Acts 2:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God. ”

• Acts 2:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Cretes - Crete, now called Candia, is an island in the Mediterranean, about 200 miles in length and 50 in breadth, about 500 miles southwest of Constantinople, and about the same distance west of...

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• Acts 2:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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,...

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• Acts 2:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Crates . Cretans. See Titus 1:12 . wonderful works . great things. Greek. megaleios. Only here and Luke 1:49 . God. App-98.

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• Acts 2:11 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  11. The wonderful works of God. Luke noteth two things which caused the hearers to wonder; first, because the apostles being before ignorant and private persons, (87) born in a base corner,...

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• Acts 2:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God. Cretes - Natives of Crete, a large and noted island in the Levant, or eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea, now...

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• Acts 2:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God. Cretes and Arabians. Crete (the modern Candia) is that large island of the Mediterranean which stretches...

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• Acts 2:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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...

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• Acts 2:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (9-11) Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites.... — The list that follows is characteristic of the trained historian — trained, it may be, as in the school of Strabo (see Introduction to St. Luke ) —...

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• Acts 2:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  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 f...

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• Acts 2:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  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 Chur...

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• Acts 2:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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...

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• Acts 2:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Cretes and Arabians ,.... The former are either the same with the Cretians, Titus 1:12 the inhabitants of the island of Crete, Acts 27:7 now called Candia or Candy, which has on the north the Ae...

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• Acts 2:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 Sho...

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• Acts 2:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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 declare...

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• Acts 2:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Day of Pentecost.       5 And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.   6 Now when this...

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• Acts 2:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Cretes; such as belonged to the island of Crete, now called Candia. The wonderful works of God; those things which God had wonderfully wrought, especially the resurrection of our blessed Saviour...

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• Acts 2:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Reaction Of The Hearers (2:5-13).

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• Acts 2:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  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 ), but also “temporari...

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• Acts 2:11 - Scofield Reference Notes

  tongues languages.

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• Acts 2:11 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Acts 2:1-13 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 symb...

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• Acts 2:11 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Acts 2:1-8 . 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 th...

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• Acts 2:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Acts 2:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

  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...

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• Acts 2:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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 Pent...

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• Acts 2:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The effect of the miracle upon the multitude:

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• Acts 2:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 12:10 ; 1 Corinthians 12:28 ; 1 Kings 10:15 ; 2 Chronicles 17:11 ; 2 Chronicles 26:7 ; Acts 27:12 ; Acts 27:7 ; Daniel 4:2 ; Daniel 4:3 ; Exodus 15:11 ; Galatians 1:17 ; Gal...

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• Acts 2:11 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Results of Pentecost Acts 2:1-18 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...

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• Acts 2:11 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Cretans — One island seems to be mentioned for all. The wonderful works of God — Probably those which related to the miracles, death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ, together with the effusi...

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