Acts 2:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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

And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, х dieeporoun (G1280), or-ounto] - were quite at a loss (cf. Acts 5:24; Luke 9:7; Luke 24:4),

Saying one to another, What meaneth this? х Ti (G5100) an (G302) theloi (G2309) touto (G5124) einai (G1511);] - 'What may this mean?' The other class appear to have been the native Jews, to whom the foreign tongues were unintelligible; and that they were of the hostile party appears but too clearly from the contempt with which they regarded the whole scene.

Acts 2:12

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