Summary
Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven, living in Jerusalem, and at this sound, the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each. Well, what assume then that the different languages was so that people could understand here, because what they were extoling, verse 11, we hear them speaking about God's deeds of power. So one would assume then that the Holy Spirit and power them to speak in different languages so that there would be understanding. I think of one theologian who writes of this, and he says, if that were true, then wouldn't the Holy Spirit, when the Holy Spirit was poured out on pentacost, wouldn't everybody be speaking in Hebrew? If it's true, if it's true, that God loves the Jews who keep the rules, why didn't they all just speak in Hebrew? Verse 8 says, how is it that we hear each of us in our own native language, pathinians, meds, eelamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Capitosea, Pontius and Asia, Frigia and Pamphilia, Egypt in the parts of Libya belonging to Syrin and visitors from Rome, both Jews and Prostlatites, Creetons and Arabs, in our own languages we hear them speaking about God's deeds of power.
Video citations
- "The Point" 5-28-23 — Would you open your Bibles' please on this Pentacos Sunday to the second chapter of the book of Acts, if you're using a Pue edition, you're going to find that on page 103 in the New Testament Acts…