Acts 2:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? ”

Acts 2:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Galileans - Inhabitants of Galilee. It was remarkable that they should speak in this manner, because: They were ignorant, rude, and uncivilized, John 1:46 . Hence, the term Galilean was used...
Acts 2:7 - 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,...
Acts 2:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

amazed . dumbfounded. Compare Mark 3:21 . one to another . to (App-104.) one another. The texts omit, but not the Syriac. Behold. App-133. Figure of speech Asterismos. App-6.
Acts 2:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? Are not all these - Galileans? - Persons who know no other dialect, save that of their...
Acts 2:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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 la...
Acts 2:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? And they were all amazed, [ pantes ( G3956 ) should not, we think, have b...
Acts 2:7 - 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...
Acts 2:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

They were all amazed and marvelled. — It will be noted that this is precisely in accordance with what St. Paul describes as the effect of the gift of tongues. They were a “sign” to them that believ...
Acts 2:7 - 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...
Acts 2:7 - 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...
Acts 2:7 - 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...
Acts 2:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And they were all amazed, and marvelled ,.... They were struck with surprise, they were as it were out of themselves, like persons in an ecstasy, not knowing what could be the cause or meaning of th...
Acts 2:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? Ver. 7. Galileans ]- crassoque sub aere nati. (Martial.)
Acts 2:7 - 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...
Acts 2:7 - 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...
Acts 2:7 - 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...
Acts 2:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Without literature, or good education, they being worse thought of on that account than the ordinary sort of that nation were; besides, they thought no prophet was to be expected from Galilee, 1 Th...
Acts 2:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Reaction Of The Hearers (2:5-13).
Acts 2:7 - 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...
Acts 2:7 - 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...
Acts 2:7 - 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...
Acts 2:7 - 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...
Acts 2:7 - 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...
Acts 2:7 - 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...
Acts 2:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The effect of the miracle upon the multitude:
Acts 2:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 1:11 ; Acts 14:11 ; Acts 14:12 ; Acts 2:12 ; Acts 3:10 ; John 7:52 ; Mark 1:27 ; Mark 2:12 ; Matthew 21:11 ; Matthew 4:18-22
Acts 2:7 - 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...

Acts 2:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Acts 2:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 2:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Acts 2:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Acts 2:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Acts 2:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Acts 2:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 2:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Acts 2:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Acts 2:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Acts 2:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Acts 2:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Acts 2:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Acts 2:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Acts 2:7 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 2:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Acts 2:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Acts 2:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 2:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Acts 2:7 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Acts 2:7 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Acts 2:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Acts 2:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

Acts 2:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Acts 2:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Acts 2:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 2:7 - Wells of Living Water Commentary