[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

OK, 120 Galilaeans suddenly start acting up a scene talking about some ghost or something with their hair on fire, some think they're drunk. This was spread eveywhere word of mouth and here comes all kinds of people talking about hearing them in their own language. Wait, what's that? Why is that a big deal you say? This place is full of out of towners and it's not that unusual to be multi-lingual. Wait...we're hearing and understanding what they are saying even though we know the person standing next to us and over there is of a language that neither of us speak. Now that's news! Three thousand people were converted that day and it wasn't because the 120 knew a few different languages.

NOT UNUSUAL?!?!Good grief.

And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.

1. Parthian
2. Medean
3. Elamite
4. Mesopotamian
5. Cappadocian
6. Judean Hebrew
7. Pontian
8. Asian
9. Phrygian
10. Pamphylian
11. Egyptian
12. Libyan
13. Cyrenian
14. Latin
15. Cretan
16. Arabic

Luke identifies sixteen different languages or distinct local dialects over which the Apostles gained Power that day, and that's just the listing which he cared to mention.

Rustic aramaic-speaking Galilean fishermen do not speak 16 different languages. It would not only be unusual, it would be unheard-of.

It would be a Miracle.

It would be the gift of Power over Foreign Tongues.

[vmatt]

Rustic aramaic-speaking Galilean fishermen do not speak 16 different languages. It would not only be unusual, it would be unheard-of. It would be a Miracle. It would be the gift of Power over Foreign Tongues.

Why not "How do they speak all our languages?" Were the 120 speaking 16 different languages at the same time? Each a different one or all in unison? You mean they were amazed and marvelled because the 120 suddenly somehow learned some 16 languages? And some were so impressed with this accomplishment that they decided drunkeness can cause one to suddenly speak 16 different languages? Come on, If I told you I speak 16 different languages since I woke up this morning, would you drop to your knees and praise God? How about me and my whole family?Of course not.

[RnMomof7]

Luke identifies sixteen different languages or distinct local dialects over which the Apostles gained Power that day, and that's just the listing which he cared to mention.

That is why I have believed that it was a gift of being able to hear the gospel...so many languages...and yet each man heard it in his own language (and dialect??)awesome...