Parallel Verses
Amplified
Cretans and Arabs—we all hear them speaking in our [native] tongues about the mighty works of God!”
New American Standard Bible
Cretans and Arabs—we hear them in our own tongues speaking of the mighty deeds of God.”
King James Version
Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
Holman Bible
Cretans and Arabs—we hear them speaking the magnificent acts of God in our own languages.”
International Standard Version
Cretans, and Arabs, listening to them talk in our own languages about the great deeds of God?"
A Conservative Version
Cretes and Arabians. We hear them speaking in our tongues the great things of God.
American Standard Version
Cretans and Arabians, we hear them speaking in our tongues the mighty works of God.
An Understandable Version
Cretans and Arabians. How can it be that we hear [these apostles] speaking about the mighty accomplishments of God in the language of our national origin?
Anderson New Testament
Cretes and Arabians we hear them speaking, in our own tongues, the wonderful works of God?
Bible in Basic English
Men of Crete and Arabia, to all of us they are talking in our different languages, of the great works of God.
Common New Testament
Cretans and Arabswe hear them in our own tongues speaking of the mighty deeds of God."
Daniel Mace New Testament
Cretes, and Arabians, we hear them all proclaiming in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
Darby Translation
Cretans and Arabians, we hear them speaking in our own tongues the great things of God?
Godbey New Testament
Cretans and Arabians, we hear them speaking the mighty works of God in our own languages.
Goodspeed New Testament
Cretans and Arabs??e all hear them tell in our native tongues the mighty deeds of God."
John Wesley New Testament
we hear them speaking in our tongues the wonderful works of God?
Julia Smith Translation
Cretes and Arabians, we hear them speaking in our tongues the great things of God.
King James 2000
Cretans and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.
Lexham Expanded Bible
both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs--we hear them speaking in our [own] languages the great deeds of God!"
Modern King James verseion
Cretans and Arabians, we hear them speaking the great things of God in our own languages.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Jews and converts, Greeks and Arabians: We have heard them speak with our own tongues the great works of God."
Moffatt New Testament
Cretans and Arabians, we hear these men talking of the triumphs of God in our own languages!"
Montgomery New Testament
we all hear these men telling in our own tongue what great things God has done."
NET Bible
both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs -- we hear them speaking in our own languages about the great deeds God has done!"
New Heart English Bible
Cretans and Arabians: we hear them speaking in our languages the mighty works of God."
Noyes New Testament
Cretans and Arabianshow is it that we hear them speaking in our tongues the wonderful works of God?
Sawyer New Testament
Cretes and Arabs, do we hear them speak in our tongues of the great works of God.
The Emphasized Bible
Cretans and Arabians, we do hear them speaking in our own tongues the magnificent things of God.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Cretans and Arabians, we hear them speaking in our own several tongues the marvellous things of God.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Either Jews by birth or converts, and some are Cretans and Arabians--yet we all alike hear them speaking in our own tongues of the great things that God has done."
Webster
Cretes and Arabians we hear them speak in our languages the wonderful works of God.
Weymouth New Testament
Yet we all alike hear these Galilaeans speaking in our own language about the wonderful things which God has done."
Williams New Testament
Cretans and Arabs -- we hear them all alike telling in our own tongues the great wonders of God."
World English Bible
Cretans and Arabians: we hear them speaking in our languages the mighty works of God!"
Worrell New Testament
Cretans, and Arabians??e hear them speaking in our own languages the wonderful works of God?"
Worsley New Testament
Cretans and Arabians, we hear them speaking in our own tongues the wonderful works of God.
Youngs Literal Translation
Cretes and Arabians, we did hear them speaking in our tongues the great things of God.'
Themes
Crete » Character of the inhabitants of
Symbols of the Holy Spirit » Cloven tongues
Feasts » Instituted by moses » Aliens (non-jews) were permitted to attend
the anniversary Feasts » The jews dispersed in distant parts often attended
Language » Many spoken at jerusalem
Language » Power of speaking different » Necessary to spread of the gospel
Language » Mentioned in scripture » Parthian and other lands
Language » Kinds of, mentioned » Arabic, &c
Orator » Instances of » Apostles
Select readings » Peter on the day of pentecost
Revivals » Instances of » At pentecost, and times after pentecost
Topics
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Hastings
Morish
Smith
Watsons
Word Count of 37 Translations in Acts 2:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Pentecost And The Coming Of The Holy Spirit
10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the districts of Libya around Cyrene, and the visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes (Gentile converts to Judaism), 11 Cretans and Arabs—we all hear them speaking in our [native] tongues about the mighty works of God!” 12 And they were beside themselves with amazement and were greatly perplexed, saying one to another, “What could this mean?”
Phrases
Cross References
Exodus 15:11
“Who is like You among the gods, O Lord?
Who is like You, majestic in holiness,
Awesome in splendor, working wonders?
1 Kings 10:15
besides the taxes from the traders and from the wares of the merchants, and [the tribute money] from all the kings of the Arabs (Bedouins) and the governors of the country.
2 Chronicles 17:11
Some of the Philistines brought gifts and silver as tribute to Jehoshaphat; the Arabians also brought him flocks: 7,700 rams and 7,700 male goats.
2 Chronicles 26:7
God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabs who lived in Gur-baal, and the Meunites.
Job 9:10
Who does great things, [beyond understanding,] unfathomable,
Yes, marvelous and wondrous things without number.
Psalm 26:7
That I may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving
And declare all Your wonders.
Psalm 40:5
Many, O Lord my God, are the wonderful works which You have done,
And Your thoughts toward us;
There is none to compare with You.
If I would declare and speak of your wonders,
They would be too many to count.
Psalm 71:17
O God, You have taught me from my youth,
And I still declare Your wondrous works and miraculous deeds.
Psalm 77:11
I will [solemnly] remember the deeds of the Lord;
Yes, I will [wholeheartedly] remember Your wonders of old.
Psalm 78:4
We will not hide them from their children,
But [we will] tell to the generation to come the praiseworthy deeds of the Lord,
And [tell of] His great might and power and the wonderful works that He has done.
Psalm 89:5
The heavens (angels) praise Your wonders, O Lord,
Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.
Psalm 96:3
Declare His glory among the nations,
His marvelous works and wonderful deeds among all the peoples.
Psalm 107:8
Let them give thanks to the Lord for His lovingkindness,
And for His wonderful acts to the children of men!
Psalm 107:15
Let them give thanks to the Lord for His lovingkindness,
And for His wonderful acts to the children of men!
Psalm 107:21
Let them give thanks to the Lord for His lovingkindness,
And for His wonderful acts to the children of men!
Psalm 111:4
He has made His wonderful acts to be remembered;
The Lord is gracious and merciful and full of loving compassion.
Psalm 136:4
To Him who alone does great wonders,
For His lovingkindness endures forever;
Isaiah 13:20
Babylon will never be inhabited or lived in from generation to generation;
Nor will the Arab pitch his tent there,
Nor will the shepherds let their sheep lie down there.
Isaiah 21:13
The [mournful, inspired] oracle (
Caravans of Dedanites.
Isaiah 25:1
I will exalt You, I will praise and give thanks to Your name;
For You have done miraculous things,
Plans formed long, long ago, [fulfilled] with perfect faithfulness.
Isaiah 28:29
This also comes from the Lord of hosts,
Who has made His counsel wonderful and His wisdom great.
Jeremiah 3:2
“Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see;
Where have you not been violated?
You sat by the road waiting [eagerly] for them [those man-made gods]
Like an Arab [tribesman who waits to attack] in the desert,
And you have desecrated the land
With your [vile] prostitution and your wickedness (disobedience to God).
Jeremiah 25:24
all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the foreign population who live in the desert;
Daniel 4:2-3
It has seemed good to me to declare the signs and wonders which the Most High God has done for me.
Acts 27:7
For a number of days we sailed slowly and arrived with difficulty off Cnidus; then, because the wind did not allow us to go farther, we sailed under the leeward (sheltered) side of Crete, off Salmone;
Acts 27:12
Because the harbor was not well situated for wintering, the majority [of the sailors] decided to put to sea from there, hoping somehow to reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete facing southwest and northwest, and spend the winter there.
1 Corinthians 12:10
and to another the working of
1 Corinthians 12:28
So God has appointed and placed in the church [for His own use]: first apostles [chosen by Christ], second prophets [those who foretell the future, those who speak a new message from God to the people], third teachers, then those who work miracles, then those with the gifts of healings, the helpers, the administrators, and speakers in various kinds of [unknown] tongues.
Galatians 1:17
Nor did I [even] go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went to Arabia and stayed awhile, and afterward returned once more to Damascus.
Galatians 4:25
Now Hagar is (represents) Mount Sinai in Arabia and she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.
Titus 1:5
For this reason I left you behind in Crete, so that you would set right what remains unfinished, and appoint
Titus 1:12
One of them [Epimenides, a Cretan], a
Hebrews 2:4
[and besides this evidence] God also testifying with them [confirming the message of salvation], both by signs and wonders and by various miracles [carried out by Jesus and the apostles] and by [granting to believers the] gifts of the Holy Spirit according to His own will.