King James Version
Acts 2:7 in the King James Version says “And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another , Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?” — study this verse from Acts chapter 2 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another , Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?”
Acts 2:7 · KJV
And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.
Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language. was: Gr. voice was made confounded: or, troubled in mind
And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another , Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?
And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
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“amazed”
G1839to put (stand) out of wits, i.e., astound, or (reflexively) become astounded, insane
“and”
G2532and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
“saying”
G3004properly, to "lay" forth, i.e., (figuratively) relate (in words (usually of systematic or set discourse; whereas g2036 and g5346 generally refer to an
“one to another”
G4314a preposition of direction; forward to, i.e., toward (with the genitive case, the side of, i.e., pertaining to; with the dative case, by the side of,
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