Acts 2:7 Meaning and Explanation
“And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?”
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Read Full Chapter →The astonished crowd recognizes the speakers as Galileans, ordinary northerners with no reputation for learning.
What Does Acts 2:7 Mean?
The crowd's amazement sharpens into a question. Galilee was a northern region with a distinct accent and no standing as a center of learning; its people were the last anyone expected to address the nations in their own tongues.
The question carries its own answer. If unschooled Galileans are speaking the languages of the world, then the power at work is not theirs. God delights to work through unlikely people, so that the wonder lands on him rather than on human credentials. The same Lord who chose fishermen for apostles still chooses ordinary voices to carry extraordinary news — and the world still marvels at the difference between the speaker and the speech.
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What does Acts 2:7 mean?
The astonished crowd recognizes the speakers as Galileans, ordinary northerners with no reputation for learning.