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Acts 2:11
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9 Parthians and Medes and Elamites, those dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judea and aCappadocia, Pontus and Asia,  
10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya adjoining Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,
11 Cretans and Arabs—we hear them speaking in our own tongues the wonderful works of God.”  
12 So they were all amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “Whatever could this mean?”
13 Others mocking said, “They are full of new wine.”

Peter’s Sermon

14 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, raised his voice and said to them, “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and heed my words.
15 For these are not drunk, as you suppose, asince it is only the third hour of the day.  
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Acts 2:11

Cretes and Arabians. These two groups "seem to have been added to the list as an afterthought" (Knowling). Crete is an island to itself and Arabia was separate also though near Judea and full of Jews. The point is not that each one of these groups of Jews spoke a different language, but that wherever there was a local tongue they heard men speaking in it.

We do hear them speaking (akouomen lalountwn autwn). Genitive case autwn with akouw the participle lalountwn agreeing with autwn, a sort of participial idiom of indirect discourse (Robertson, Grammar, pp. 1040ff.).

The mighty works (ta megaleia). Old adjective for magnificent. In LXX, but only here (not genuine in Luke 1:49) in the N.T. Cf. II Peter 1:16 for megaleiothv (majesty).




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Acts 2:11:

Acts 2:7
Acts 10:46
Titus 1:10
1 Peter 2:9
2 Peter 1:16

 

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