8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
8 Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language?
8 And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language?
8 How come we're hearing them talk in our various mother tongues?
8 And how is it that we hear, each in our own language in which we were born?
8 and yet we hear them speaking in our own native languages!
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Acts 2:8
Commentary on Acts 2:5-13
(Read Acts 2:5-13)
The difference in languages which arose at Babel, has much hindered the spread of knowledge and religion. The instruments whom the Lord first employed in spreading the Christian religion, could have made no progress without this gift, which proved that their authority was from God.