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Acts 2:8
And how is it that every one of us is hearing their words in the language which was ours from our birth?
Acts 2:8 · Bible in Basic English
Acts 2:8 in other translations
And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
How is it then that each of us hears them in his own native language?
How do we hear, everyone in our own native language?
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In context
5 Now there were living at Jerusalem, Jews, God-fearing men, from every nation under heaven.
6 And when this sound came to their ears, they all came together, and were greatly surprised because every man was hearing the words of the disciples in his special language.
7 And they were full of wonder and said, Are not all these men Galilaeans?
8 And how is it that every one of us is hearing their words in the language which was ours from our birth?
9 Men of Parthia, Media, and Elam, and those living in Mesopotamia, in Judaea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia,
10 In Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and those who have come from Rome, Jews by birth and others who have become Jews,
11 Men of Crete and Arabia, to all of us they are talking in our different languages, of the great works of God.
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