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Acts 2:11

Acts 2:11
Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Cretes and Arabians,.... The former are either the same with the Cretians, Tit 1:12 the inhabitants of the island of Crete, Act 27:7 now called Candia or Candy, which has on the north the Aegean sea,…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Cretes - Crete, now called Candia, is an island in the Mediterranean, about 200 miles in length and 50 in breadth, about 500 miles southwest of Constantinople, and about the same distance west of…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Cretes - Natives of Crete, a large and noted island in the Levant, or eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea, now called Candia.

Arabians - Natives of Arabia, a well known country of Asia, having the…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Acts 2:5-13

We have here an account of the public notice that was taken of this extraordinary gift with which the disciples were all on a sudden endued. Observe,

I. The great concourse of people that there was…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Cretes Dwellers in the well-known island which lies south of the Cyclades in the Mediterranean, now called Candia. Christianity may perhaps have been spread in Crete also from the converts at…