Acts 2:6

"When this sound occurred, the multitude gathered and was confounded," that is, was confused, was amazed. Since this happened in a house, it is evident that the people came running from outside. "For every man heard them speak in his own dialect." They knew that …

) that the spreading of the report of this abroad was that which brought the multitude together, especially those of different countries, who seem to have been more affected with this work of wonder than the inhabitants of Jerusalem themselves. They observe that the speakers are all Galileans, that know no other than their mother tongue (

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The sermon which Peter preached to them hereupon, wherein he shows that this pouring out of the Spirit was the accomplishment of an Old-Testament promise (

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Now when this was noised abroad,....

When this was noised abroad - When the rumor of this remarkable transaction was spread, as it naturally would be. Were confounded - συνεχύθη sunechuthē̄. The word used here means literally “to pour together,” hence, “to confound, confuse.” It is used: (a) Of an assembly or multitude thrown into confusion, Act 21:27; (b) Of the mind as perplexed or confounded, as in disputation, Act 9:22; and, (c) Of persons in amazement or consternation, as in this place. They did not understand this; they could not account for it. Every man heard them speak ... - Though the multitude spoke different tongues, yet they now heard Galileans use the language which they had learned in foreign nations. “His own language.” His own dialect - διαλέκτῳ dialektō. His own idiom, whether it was a foreign language, or whether it was a modification of the Hebrew. The word may mean either; but it is probable that the foreign Jews would greatly modify the Hebrew, or conform almost entirely to the language spoken in the country where they lived. We may remark here that this effect of the descent of the Holy Spirit was not special to that time. A work of grace on the hearts of people in a revival of religion will always “be noised abroad.” A multitude will come together, and God often, as he did here, makes use of this motive to bring them under the influence of religion. Curiosity was the motive here, and it was the occasion of their being brought under the power of truth, and of their conversion. In thousands of cases this has occurred since. The effect of what they saw was to confound them, to astonish them, and to throw them into deep perplexity. They made no complaint at first of the irregularity of what was done, but were all amazed and overwhelmed. […]