12 Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, "What does this mean?"
12 And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?
12 And all were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, "What does this mean?"
12 Their heads were spinning; they couldn't make head or tail of any of it. They talked back and forth, confused: "What's going on here?"
12 So they were all amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, "Whatever could this mean?"
12 They stood there amazed and perplexed. "What can this mean?" they asked each other.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Acts 2:12
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.