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.
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- ἤκουον — SBLGNT
- ἤκουον — Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
- ἤκουσεν — Westcott-Hort
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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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.