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Acts 2:6

Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.

KJV

γενομένης δὲ τῆς φωνῆς ταύτης συνῆλθεν τὸ πλῆθος καὶ συνεχύθη, ὅτι ἤκουον εἷς ἕκαστος τῇ ἰδίᾳ διαλέκτῳ λαλούντων αὐτῶν.

Greek NT

Facta autem hac voce, convenit multitudo, et mente confusa est, quoniam audiebat unusquisque lingua sua illos loquentes.

Vulgate

And when this sound was heard, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speaking in his own language.

ASV

And when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded in mind, because that every man heard them speak in his own tongue.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

17 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γίνομαι
ginomai
verb · 667×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
διάλεκτος
dialektos
noun · 6×
εἷς
eis
adjective · 336×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λαλέω
laleo
verb · 298×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
πλῆθος
plethos
noun · 32×
συγχέω
sugcheo
verb · 5×
συνέρχομαι
sunerchomai
verb · 31×
φωνή
phone
noun · 139×
ἀκούω
akouo
verb · 427×
ἕκαστος
ekastos
adjective · 84×
ἴδιος
idios
adjective · 114×
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: ἤκουον | Treg/NIV/RP: ἤκουον | WH: ἤκουσεν
  • ἤκουονSBLGNT
  • ἤκουονTregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
  • ἤκουσενWestcott-Hort
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§1287This fullness of the Spirit was not to remain uniquely the Messiah's, but was to be communicated to the whole messianic people.93 On several occasions Christ promised this outpouring of the Spirit,94 a promise which he fulfilled first on Easter Sunday and then more strikingly at Pentecost.95 Filled with the Holy Spirit the apostles began to proclaim "the mighty works of God," a…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 14:22 — Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.
  • Gen 11:1 — And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.