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 been removed from the text by Lachmann and Tischendorf] and marveled, saying [one to another] (these bracketed words are probably not genuine),
Behold, are not all these which speak Galileans? - not thereby reflecting on the sect, so called (for to these foreigners the disciples of Christ would hardly be thus known), but on the region, which was proverbially despised by the pure Palestinian Jews; although its inhabitants were their superiors in general intelligence and liberality, "Galilee of the Gentiles" having freer contact with the adjacent populations.