Acts 2:8 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁸ How is it then, that we are hearing them speak in our own native languages:

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Then how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own (particular) dialect to which we were born?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ And how hear we, every man in our own language wherein we were born?

Common English Bible

⁸ How then can each of us hear them speaking in our native language?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ And how is it that we have each heard them in our own language, into which we were born?

Acts 2:8 Cross References

Luke 1:67

Then his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, saying,

Acts 2:7

Being so amazed and astounded [at some­thing so unusual happening], they exclaimed, “Look! are not all these men who are speaking from [the country of] Galilee?

Acts 2:9

Parthians, Medes, Elamites, people from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappodocia, Pontus, Asia,

1 Corinthians 12:28

Now God has placed some [ministries] in the church [as follows]: First apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then [those able to perform] miracles, then gifts [enabling people] to perform [supernatural] healings, [those able] to help the needy, [wise] administrators, [and] those able to speak in different languages.