Acts 2:7

Weymouth New Testament

They were beside themselves with wonder, and exclaimed, "Are not all these speakers Galilaeans?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They were astounded and amazed, saying, “Look, aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans?

King James Version (1611)
And they were all amazed, and marueiled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speake, Galileans?

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

English Standard Version
And they were amazed and astonished, saying, "Are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

New American Standard Bible
They were amazed and astonished, saying, "Why, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

New Century Version
They were completely amazed at this. They said, "Look! Aren't all these people that we hear speaking from Galilee?

Amplified Bible
They were completely astonished, saying, "Look! Are not all of these who are speaking Galileans?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
They were amazed and astonished, saying, "Why, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

Legacy Standard Bible
So they were astounded and marveling, saying, "Behold, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

Berean Standard Bible
Astounded and amazed, they asked, "Are not all these men who are speaking Galileans?

Contemporary English Version
They were excited and amazed, and said: Don't all these who are speaking come from Galilee?

Complete Jewish Bible
Totally amazed, they asked, "How is this possible? Aren't all these people who are speaking from the Galil?

Darby Translation
And all were amazed and wondered, saying, Behold, are not all these who are speaking Galilaeans?

Easy-to-Read Version
They were all amazed at this. They did not understand how the apostles could do this. They said, "Look! These men we hear speaking are all from Galilee.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And they wondered al, and marueiled, saying among themselues, Beholde, are not all these which speake, of Galile?

George Lamsa Translation
And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these who speak Gal-i-l''ans?

Good News Translation
In amazement and wonder they exclaimed, "These people who are talking like this are Galileans!

Lexham English Bible
And they were astounded and astonished, saying, "Behold, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

Literal Translation
And all were amazed and marveled, saying to one another, Behold, are not all these, those speaking, Galileans?

American Standard Version
And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying, Behold, are not all these that speak Galilaeans?

Bible in Basic English
And they were full of wonder and said, Are not all these men Galilaeans?

Hebrew Names Version
They were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, "Behold, aren't all these who speak from the Galil?

International Standard Version
Stunned and amazed, they asked, "All of these people who are speaking are Galileans, aren't they?Acts 1:11;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
(And) they were all astonished, and wondered, saying one to another, These all who speak, behold, are they not Galiloyee?

Murdock Translation
And they were all astonished, and wondered, saying one to another: All these who speak behold, are they not Galileans?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
They wondred all, and marueyled, saying among themselues: Beholde, are not all these which speake, of Galilee?

English Revised Version
And they were all amazed and marveled, saying, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?

World English Bible
They were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, "Behold, aren't all these who speak Galileans?

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And they were amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And alle weren astonyed, and wondriden, and seiden togidere, Whether not alle these that speken ben men of Galyle,

Update Bible Version
And they were amazed and marveled, saying, Look, are not all these that speak Galileans?

Webster's Bible Translation
And they were all amazed, and marveled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these who speak Galileans?

New English Translation
Completely baffled, they said, "Aren't all these who are speaking Galileans?

New King James Version
Then they were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, "Look, are not all these who speak Galileans?

New Living Translation
They were completely amazed. "How can this be?" they exclaimed. "These people are all from Galilee,

New Life Bible
They were surprised and wondered about it. They said to each other, "Are not these Galileans who are speaking?

New Revised Standard
Amazed and astonished, they asked, "Are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yea they were beside themselves and did marvel, saying - Lo! are not all these who are speaking Galilaeans?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they were all amazed, and wondered, saying: Behold, are not all these that speak Galilean?

Revised Standard Version
And they were amazed and wondered, saying, "Are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
They wondred all and marveyled sayinge amoge them selves: Beholde are not all these which speake of Galile?

Young's Literal Translation
and they were all amazed, and did wonder, saying one unto another, `Lo, are not all these who are speaking Galileans?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
They wondred all and marueyled, and sayde amonge them selues: Beholde, are not all these which speake, of Galile?

Mace New Testament (1729)
struck with astonishment and admiration, they said to one another, are not these men who are speaking, all Galileans?

Simplified Cowboy Version
The people were flabbergasted and wondered, "How is this possible? These cowboys are all from Galilee.

Contextual Overview

⁵ Now there were Jews residing in Jerusalem, devout men from every part of the world. ⁶ So when this noise was heard, they came crowding together, and were amazed because everyone heard his own language spoken. ⁷ They were beside themselves with wonder, and exclaimed, "Are not all these speakers Galilaeans? ⁸ How then does each of us hear his own native language spoken by them? ⁹ Some of us are Parthians, Medes, Elamites. Some are inhabitants of Mesopotamia, of Judaea or Cappadocia, of Pontus or the Asian Province, of Phrygia or Pamphylia, ¹⁰ of Egypt or of the parts of Africa towards Cyrene. Others are visitors from Rome--being either Jews or converts from heathenism--and others are Cretans or Arabians. ¹¹ Yet we all alike hear these Galilaeans speaking in our own language about the wonderful things which God has done." ¹² They were all astounded and bewildered, and asked one another, "What can this mean?" ¹³ But others, scornfully jeering, said, "They are brim-full of sweet wine."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

amazed: Acts 2:12, Acts 3:10, Acts 14:11, Acts 14:12, Mark 1:27, Mark 2:12

are: Acts 1:11, Matthew 4:18-22, Matthew 21:11, John 7:52

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 10:11 - What is this Mark 7:37 - were Mark 14:70 - for John 7:15 - How Acts 4:13 - were

Cross-References

John 20:22
Having said this He breathed upon them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit.

Acts 17:25
Nor is He ministered to by human hands, as though He needed anything--but He Himself gives to all men life and breath and all things.

Romans 9:20
Nay, but who are you, a mere man, that you should cavil against GOD? Shall the thing moulded say to him who moulded it, "Why have you made me thus?"

1 Corinthians 15:47
The first man is a man of earth, earthy; the second man is from Heaven.

2 Corinthians 4:7
But we have this treasure in a fragile vase of clay, in order that the surpassing greatness of the power may be seen to belong to God, and not to originate in us.

2 Corinthians 5:1
For we know that if this poor tent, our earthly house, is taken down, we have in Heaven a building which God has provided, a house not built by human hands, but eternal.

Hebrews 12:9
Besides this, our earthly fathers used to discipline us and we treated them with respect, and shall we not be still more submissive to the Father of our spirits, and live?

Gill's Notes on the 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 this:

saying one to another; the phrase "one to another", is left out in the Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions, and so it is in the Alexandrian copy:

behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? rude, unpolished, and unlearned men; who had never been brought up in any school of learning, and had never learned any language but their mother tongue; and that they pronounced with an ill grace, and in a very odd manner; and which made the thing the more astonishing to them. The apostles were inhabitants of Galilee, and so very likely were the greatest part of those that were with them: hence the Christians afterwards, by way of contempt, were called Galilaeans; as they are by Julian x the apostate, and others y.

x Opera, par. 1. Fragment. p. 557. & par. 2. Ep. 49. p. 203, 204. y Arrian. Epictet. l. 4. c. 7.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Galileans - Inhabitants of Galilee. It was remarkable that they should speak in this manner, because:

1. They were ignorant, rude, and uncivilized, John 1:46. Hence, the term Galilean was used as an expression of the deepest reproach and contempt, Mark 14:70; John 7:52.
2. Their dialect was proverbially barbarous and corrupt, Mark 14:70; Matthew 26:73. They were regarded as an outlandish people, unacquainted with other nations and languages, and hence, the amazement that they could address them in the refined language of other people. Their native ignorance was the occasion of making the miracle more striking. The native weakness of Christian ministers makes the grace and glory of God more remarkable in the success of the gospel. “We have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us,” 2 Corinthians 4:7. The success which God often grants to those who are of slender endowments and of little learning, though blessed with an humble and pious heart, is often amazing to the people of the world. God has “chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise,” 1 Corinthians 1:27. This should teach us that no talent or attainment is too humble to be employed for mighty purposes, in its proper sphere, in the kingdom of Christ; and that pious effort may accomplish much, and then burn in heaven with increasing luster for ever, while pride, and learning, and talent may blaze uselessly among people, and then be extinguished in eternal night.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 2:7. Are not all these - Galileans? — Persons who know no other dialect, save that of their own country. Persons wholly uneducated, and, consequently, naturally ignorant of those languages which they now speak so fluently.