Acts 2:7

And they were all amazed, and marvelled,.... They were struck with surprise, they were as it were out of themselves, like persons in an ecstasy, not knowing what could be the cause or meaning of this:…

Galileans - Inhabitants of Galilee. It was remarkable that they should speak in this manner, because: They were ignorant, rude, and uncivilized, Joh 1:46. Hence, the term Galilean was used as an…

Are not all these - Galileans? - Persons who know no other dialect, save that of their own country. Persons wholly uneducated, and, consequently, naturally ignorant of those languages which they now…

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…

Galileans No doubt the twelve came more prominently forward than the rest, and in Jerusalem they had been known as Galilæans before the Crucifixion (Mat 26:69-73).